Rosenthal v. National Produce Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that material terms to a contract cannot be indefinite
• stating that material terms to a contract cannot be indefinite
• finding the oral contract “we will deliver produce; you will pay us” to be unenforceably indefinite
• “Reasonable definiteness in the essential terms of a purported contract must ... be a precondition for its enforceability, for otherwise the court has no adequate means of identifying the obligations which it should enforce.”
• “If the agreement be so vague and indefinite that it is not possible to collect from it the intention of the parties, it is void because neither the court nor jury could make a contract for the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).