Will-Drill Resources, Inc. v. Samson Resources Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when “a party attacks the very existence of an agreement . . . the courts must first resolve that dispute”
• holding that when “a party attacks the very existence of an agreement . . . the courts must first resolve that dispute”
• holding that “[w]here the very existence of any agreement is disputed, it is for the courts to decide at the outset whether an agreement was reached”
• holding that “where a party attacks the very existence of an agreement, as opposed to its continued validity or enforcement, the courts must first resolve that dispute”
• reserving issue of contract formation to court, not arbitrator, when less than all of the parties signed agreement
• stating the court must resolve an attack to \the very existence of an agreement\ where a party claims that not all parties signed the agreement containing the arbitration provision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).