Ingrassia Const. Co., Inc. v. Walsh

How courts have described this case

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• holding that implied contracts may arise where the circumstances, including “the ordinary course of dealing and the common understanding of men, show a mutual intention to contract”
• holding that implied contracts may arise where the circumstances, including “the ordinary course of dealing and the common 16 understanding of men, show a mutual intention to contract”
• holding that a counter-offer terminates the original offer
• stating that the existence and nature of an implied-in-fact contract is determined by the parties’ “outward and objective manifestations of assent, as opposed to their undisclosed and subjective intentions”
• “In ascertaining the intent of the parties to a contract, it is their outward and objective manifestations of assent, as opposed to their undisclosed and subjective intentions, that matter.”
• outward, objective manifestations of assent govern, rather than undisclosed, subjective intentions; subjective intent forms basis of contract only if other party knows or should have known of it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).