Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he doctrine of promissory estoppel was invoked as a substitute for consideration rendering a gratuitous promise enforceable as a contract.”
• “The wrong [alleged in the promissory estoppel claim] is not primarily in depriving the plaintiff of the promised reward but in causing the plaintiff to change position to his detriment.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).