Melvin v. Home Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing recovery under an implied-in-fact contract after determining that a contract was awarded without valid competition
• focusing not on fact that the modification at issue was bilateral, but on the fact that it was not part of, nor intended to implement, the original contract, and thus was a new contract
• “Performance having been fully completed, holding the obligation to pay unenforceable is not a position favored in this circuit.”
• “Performance having been fully completed, holding the obligation to pay unenforceable is not a position favored in this circuit.”
• “if the option never constitutes the chief object of desire for which the contract was negotiated, the option is not a second contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).