Terrance v. Dow Chemical Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he right to recover in tort for wrongful discharge extends only to employees at will.”
• “[w]hen detrimental reliance is demonstrated by the promisee’s action or forbearance, the detrimental reliance satisfies the necessity of consideration required for a valid contract.”
• “[t]he less clear an agreement, the less likely the plaintiffs reliance will be reasonable and foreseeable, and the less probable will be the injustice from refusing to enforce the agreement”
• “a promisor is not hable to a promisee who has relied on a promise if, judged by an objective standard, he had no reason to expect any reliance at all”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).