Smith v. Trabue

How courts have described this case

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• “The inquiry is limited to evidence of the expressed intention of the parties, by words or acts, or both, as it is only from the words and conduct of the parties that a court can form any conclusion as to their intention.”
• “The apparent mutual assent of the parties, essential to the formation of a contract, must be gathered from the language employed by them, and the law imputes to a person an intention corresponding to the reasonable meaning of its words and acts.” (quotation simplified)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).