Leitner v. Braen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that contract for “the usual sponsorship fees” was enforceable despite vagueness and that evidence of custom and usage “is always relevant to make definite words which would otherwise be vague and indefinite”
• “To be enforceable, a contract must be sufficiently definite in its terms that the performance to be rendered by each party can be ascertained with reasonable certainty.”
• “The phrase, ‘meeting of the minds,’ can properly mean only the agreement reached by the parties as expressed, i.e., their manifested intention, not one secret or undisclosed, which may be wholly at variance with the former.”
• “The phrase, ‘meeting of the minds,’ can properly mean only the agreement reached by the parties as expressed, i.e., their manifested intention, not one secret or undisclosed, which may be wholly at variance with the former.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).