Stice v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that contractual terms must be sufficiently definite to enable a court to determine whether the contract has been performed
• identifying these terms as relevant for determining the existence of an alleged oral contract
• if language is too uncertain to allow court to determine intent, it cannot be enforced
• “An offer must be so definite in its terms ... that the promises and performances to be rendered by each party are reasonably certain”
• a contract must be definite in its terms to be enforceable
• “The court can supply some elements in a contract, but they cannot make one; and when the lan- guage in a contract is too uncertain to gather from it what the parties intended, the courts cannot enforce it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).