Weitzman v. Steinberg

How courts have described this case

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

• noting courts “cannot make contracts for the parties” and “a jury [cannot] supply an essential term in the contract which the parties were unable to complete by mutual agreement”
• doctrine of promissory estoppel enforces obligations which would otherwise be barred at law, for example an oral contract for the sale of real property, and does not create the essential contractual elements where none existed before

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).