Van Brunt v. Rauschenberg

How courts have described this case

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

• ordering, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(e), the filing of a new complaint with more precise dates
• granting motion to dismiss a breach of contract claim where plaintiff sought to enforce promises supported only by consideration that predated the promises’ making, on the “elementary” legal basis that “past consideration is not consideration”
• “without a transfer of property in reliance of a promise or agreement, there cannot be a constructive trust
• “[E]quitable estoppel is an historical antecedent of promissory estoppel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).