Penzell v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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• denying relief because the custom in both the industry and the employer’s company was that agent did not earn a commission until the advertisements ran
• finding no viable breach of contract claim based on party’s statement that it would use “best efforts, as this phrase “is too indefinite and uncertain to be an enforceable standard.”
• employer’s closing of an office and termination of all employees in that office constituted sufficient cause for dismissal of employee with guaranteed salary
• all “material terms and conditions” must be ascertainable for an enforceable agreement to be created
• statements regarding future events or circumstances are not a basis for fraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).