Smith v. Chickamauga Cedar Company

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[o]ffers which are originally too indefinite may later acquire precision and become valid offers, by the subsequent words or acts of the offeror or his assent to words or acts of the offeree”
• to be effective, the terms of the acceptance must be identical to the terms of the offer
• ‘“A reservation to either party to a contract of an unlimited right to determine the nature and extent of his performance, renders his obligation too indefinite for legal enforcement.’”
• “‘A reservation to either party to a contract of an unlimited right to determine the nature and extent of his performance, renders his obligation too indefinite for legal enforcement.’”
• “ ‘A reservation to either party to a contract of an unlimited right to determine the nature and extent of his performance, renders his obligation too indefinite for legal enforcement.’ ”
• ‘ “A reservation to either party to a contract of an unlimited right to determine the nature and extent of his performance, renders his obligation too indefinite for legal enforcement.” ’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).