The Grandoe Corporation v. Gander Mountain Company

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting defendant’s interpretation of an admission as dispositive where “such a concession would have been senseless,” immediately defeating the admitting party’s entire case
• affirming district court finding where a carelessly worded stipulation that would have “immediately defeated Grandhoe’s entire case” was not a deliberate, clear and unambiguous concession that agreement applied to the parties’ entire transaction
• affirming district court finding where a carelessly worded stipulation that would have “immediately defeated Grandhoe’s entire case” was not a deliberate, clear and unambiguous concession that disputed agreement applied to the parties’ entire transaction
• “This question of contract formation precedes any question about the legal effect of the contract’s terms.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).