James v. Penn Tanning Co.

Citations

• 221 Pa. 634
• 70 A. 885
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 543

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Written contract — Vagueness of terms — Unenforceable memorandum.</p> <p>A memorandum in writing relating to a sale or exchange of bark or timber, is not enforceable as a contract, where it appears that no parties are mentioned in the writing on which it is to be binding, that no time is stated for the beginning or ending of the alleged contract, that there is no definite area of land described from which timber is to be taken, nor any fixed amount of bark to be delivered for purposes of exchange, that the paper does not show that the minds of the parties ever came together on any specific thing, and that evidence apart from the paper shows that the memorandum was intended merely as the basis upon which to make a formal contract.</p>