Rayle Tech, Inc., D.B.A. Callaway Farms v. Dekalb Swine Breeders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to apply an Illinois choice-of-law provision to tort claims since the provision stated that the contract “shall be governed by” Illinois law
• applying because the plaintiff’s claim sounded in tort, alleging that the defendant “breach[ed] [a] duty imposed by law and not merely [one] . . . imposed by the contract itself”
• “Under Georgia’s choice of law rules, parties by contract may stipulate that the laws of another jurisdiction will govern the transaction.”
• “The rule of lex loci contractus mandates that the validity, nature, construction, and interpretation of a contract are governed by the substantive law of the state where the contract was made.”
• “[P]arties by contract may stipulate that the laws of another jurisdiction will govern the transaction, unless . . . the chosen jurisdiction has no substantial relationship to the parties or the transaction.”
• “For an action stemming from a breach of a duty growing out of a contractual relation to be classified as tortious, the breach must be shown to have been a breach of duty imposed by law and not merely the breach of a duty imposed by the contract itself”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).