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· 12/15/2023

Shift Services v. Ames Savage Water Solutions

Citations

  • 2023 ND 237

Syllabus

Once a contract has been entered into, mutual assent of the contracting parties is essential for any modification of the contract. To establish a modification, the party asserting the modification must show that there was an agreement of the parties on all essential terms of the contract modification, and that the parties intended the new terms to alter the contract.

How courts have described this case

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

  • vessels or other crafts “encompass, generally, all objects designed and intended to float on navigable waters which, when sunk, would create an obstruction similar to that of a sunken vessel.”
  • “The dry dock ... does not retain its character when it has been severed from its attachments to the land and when, under tow, it is moving over navigable waters equipped, as this one was, with a vessel’s navigation lights.”

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Judges: Jensen, Jon J.

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