United States v. Greenlee

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, absent ambiguity in a contract, a court should not look behind the consideration for the agreement when asked to enforce the terms of that contract
• referring to ambiguities affecting the meeting of the minds as those that go “to the heart of the contract”
• describing “a judicial reluctance to lock parties into a given set of rights and obligations for long or indefinite periods without some clear indication that this was actually intended by the parties”
• stating Courts generally will not find that no contract existed on account of no meeting of the minds “if there is any reasonable means of giving effect to the contract at issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).