Slattery v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• charging the jury to find whether a contract was formed based on the parties’ communications
• “It has been suggested that when parties act under a preliminary oral agreement or receive benefits from it, they are bound even though an ultimate writing was not prepared as contemplated and even though, but for such acts, they would not have been held to have contracted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).