Tull v. Mister Donut Development Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Businessmen would be undesirably inhibited in their dealings if expressions of intent and the exchange of drafts were taken as legally binding agreements.”
• the parties’ communications about the terms of a long-term commercial lease left open points of the financing and timing of improvements so as to remain only “an agenda for further discussion”
• “Normally the fact that parties contemplate the execution of final written documents justifies a strong inference that the parties do not intend to be bound by earlier negotiations or agreements until the final terms are settled.”
• requirement that reliance be reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).