Hypo: If I give you $10K on the condition that you give me $500, that’s not enforceable. [The judges would likely disagree on inclusion of past practice, however.] The gamble was included in the price, and any warranty would have been express. 85-5542. DamagesNegative PledgesNoIn the era of debtor’s prisons, upholding damages would lead to imprisonment, making enforcement of damages equally objectionable.If you can’t work for anyone else, you have to work for the original employer, which is the same exact result as indentured servitude.YesWe don’t really favor human dignity over market efficiency at every point; there are necessary limits. Hypo: What if he says, “My son is stealing $1000 a week. She employed Wood to help her do her business, and gave him exclusive right to license out her name in exchange for 50% of the profits he earned. A isn’t denying he’s in material breach, and owes expectation damages, but that expectation damages are zero (market damages)! A buyer in a ctct for land can request SP plus incurred damages as well. and ctct. Following these unsuccessful attempts to obtain relief from his conviction or execution in state court, petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus in federal court. Ct. is not allowing for efficient breach! Should the court be able to uphold a negative pledge or damages? BUSH RULE: Parties cannot breach and then sue on the contract. True damages are neither $750K nor $0. The operation could not be completed. The car is also not unique enough. [Restatement also adds that reliance or statute may make unconsidered modifications valid.] [Same logic as before: Make sure no one lies. H: Ctct is enforceable, but to protect sellers there is an imputed obligation to act in good faith. Law School Resources Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., (1919) 1. Wood v. Lady Duff F: LDG agrees to grant Wood the exclusive use of her name in exchange for half the revenues from such use. The stereo is unique because some parts are impossible to replace, others are very difficult, and there is immense sentimental value to Cumbest. The remainder is your expectation damages. Question: How does it do that?] LIMITATIONS ON DAMAGES 1. In Dempsey, some liquidated damages would have gotten the parties to at least do something! Upon breach, Ford brought suit for specific performance of the written agreement. [It appears there is no SP for corporate services; only enforcement of a negative pledge] Specific Performance and Services The Case of Mark Clark Having to perform is degrading to the performing party. DAMAGES FOR BREACH Expectation: Benefit of the Bargain. The age distinction was removed in 1989. If we had that agreement, don’t you think it’d be in the ctct somewhere?” The judge would agree and that evidence would be precluded. Johnson v. Otterbein F: Donor agrees to give $ to university if used to pay back debt. No, because the ex ante approach is the right one, but some courts might. Sometimes granted where damages wouldn’t be compensatory. Read the full-text amicus brief (PDF, 559KB) Issue . Shippers with unusual items must protect themselves. Crim. NOTE: A modern court would probably find a ctct in this case! However, following his sentencing, Ford began to display symptoms of a serious mental disorder. No contracts or commitments. Some people may only want to enter into ctcts when they know the maximum risk they are assuming. Quimbee California Bar Review is now available! Q Krell v. Henry F: Space was rented for the coronation; coronation didn’t occur. This is not about breaching and suing: If you have substantially performed, you are more a performer than a breacher, and have rights to sue under the contract. (Ct. thinks its expectation, but it’s not. Under restitution you would owe me $500, not $200 (and not $700 because courts will rarely award reliance and restitution simultaneously as that would be disproportionate relief in P’s favor). Because, what the ct. is doing, and what the Restatement tells it to do, is saying that if A knows B is going to breach, A doesn’t get a remedy! : “A and B have no other dealings about Green Acres besides this one.” NOTE: What you are doing in enforcing the parole evidence rule: You want to identify what the agreement is, to what they objectively manifested assent. Doesn’t reflect actual loss to buyer, but encourages efficiency. Party in breach is entitled to restitution for any benefit conferred by way of part performance or reliance in excess of the loss that he has caused by his own breach (but, if ctct states otherwise and liquidated damages are reasonable, the ctct governs). ). as in the typical case of inefficiency/waste.) A’s argument: I have increased the value of your property because I got rid of the eyesore of a trailer from oceanfront property! (Ct’s logic of legal rights is incorrect; just ask the bargained-for exchange question. The goods in question with SP are usually already made, so there has been no waste in producing/improving them like there is with painting a house. This begs the question, though, of whether the omission of the description should have been viewed as objective evidence that the parties did not intend to have formed a contract at that point. Restatement (2d) § 30: Acceptance Invited: Either acceptance as req’d in ctct or whatever is reasonable Restatement (2d) § 32: Invitation of Promise or Performance: If it’s not explicit, it’s up to offeree how to accept, by promise or performance. Total losses are $9,500. H: Ct. limits expectation damages to what could fairly and reasonably be said to: Arise naturally from the breach, or May reasonably have been contemplated by both parties, ex ante, as the probable result of breach of the ctct. Restatement (2d) § 347: Expecation: Lost profits + incidental losses – costs avoided UCC § 1-106: Expectation dmgs. Restatement (2d) §17: Reqs of a Bargain: Mental reservations don’t impair formation of ctct Restatement (2d) §19: Conduct as Manifestation of Assent: Written or spoken words, actions, omissions can all be acceptances; Party must intend for action to be acceptance or have reason to know that the other party will interpret it as such. I should get the expected value less $25K I planned to pay (Cost of completion damages). Good faith arguments usually lead to battles over implicit terms, and whether or not they permit the activity the other party is engaged in. It’s an implicit term question, so the cts. The doctrine protects the ignorant party, but not to help him; it protects the ignorant party to prevent the resulting inefficiency (because he’ll overinvest expecting more favorable terms, and will be disappointed, and deal with an inefficient loss, if the other party’s terms are used). 1372 (W.D. Gen has to accept the offer before relying upon it, and there was no acceptance (using it in the bid doesn’t count); Hand says it’s so easy to notify sub of acceptance that gen simply should have done it. Sun Printing v. Remington Paper F: Ctct to buy paper; price to be determined at unknown intervals, but no higher than Canadian index price. Lower ct. had used §2-718 for restitution to buyer for anything above reasonable liquidated damages (either as stipulated or the smaller of 20% and $500), so ct. awarded $500 (there was no stipulated liquidated damages price, I don’t think). JDs without the UCC may still apply the mirror image rule, but it’s eroding a lot under common law as well. Mich. 1975) case opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan H: NOT a unilateral mistake b/c not every relevant fact is an implicit term of the contract. Tendency of the cts. This seems like Hypo 2 above, because it’s common to expect compensation for such info, but this contract should have included an explicit price term (and should have been a real contract). (Lumley Rule: Court cannot compel SP, but it can enforce a negative pledge.) If he goes to variant A, he makes more, lessor makes less, profits go up. § 71: Must be bargain, exchange or promises; recipient & nature not clearly defined). Moving to variant A is legitimate, because it maximizes/improves the welfare of the business (and thus society), but moving to B, while it also helps him and hurts the lessor, is bad faith because it hurts the business itself, and it sure seems like bad faith to endanger the overall profitability of the enterprise (and thus hurt the other party). Ct. does not ultimately rely on price, though it seemed like it would. Here's why 427,000 law students have relied on our case briefs: Are you a current student of ? 6 (Dist. UCC §2-706 Seller’s Resale (Neri Rule) UCC §2-708 Expectancy for Repudiation or non-acceptance UCC §2-710 Incidental Dmgs UCC §2-718 Restitution (Liquidated Dmgs. BUT, if the buyer is a radiator manufacturer, he has to buy regardless of what the market does, so seller and buyer have equal chances of success due to market changes, and thus the promise is not illusory. Question: Why doesn’t this add a level of reduction capping the damages to the contract price? (If it will cost me $2K to perform, & the value you expect is $1K, breach is efficient, but a damages clause of $3K will discourage efficient breach and lead to waste if I breach or not.) as “objective”, but only after finding it couldn’t determine a genuine subjective meaning [the reason is that this “objective” meaning wasn’t overwhelmingly clear either, so Judge Friendly wants to at least consider the subjective possibility. This is just smart business sense, not mere strategic sense. H: Revocation is legitimate because it occurred prior to performance; no contract to accept. Hypo: If I offer $1M to find my dog, I am offering a unilateral ctct, but implicit in the offer is a chance to look. Even if it looks like a formal, bargained-for exchange, if there is no real consideration the ct. will not enforce it. Mkt. [Promisor, D, agreed not to sell the dresses, but is now selling the two-piece combos, so promisee, P, sues.] First, there must be enough terms there that the court, perhaps after reasonable gap-filling, can find a remedy for breach. 348 (1981) Facts: Lily Gray and family purchased a Ford Pinto hatchback from Ford Motor Company. Ford v. Wainwright. Paradine v. Jane F: Tenant can’t use his house because it’s occupied by an army. Statement of the Facts: Petitioner Ford was convicted of murder in Florida state court and sentenced to death. Hypo: Under Anti-Bush, Seller could get out of this jam by agreeing to the buyer’s preferred term, breaching, and suing the buyer for his savings! No mitigation in fact. I must get to keep looking b/c I have the option to complete performance, otherwise you’d be able to rescind it when I had your dog cornered. ; no penalty clause) In principle the question of mitigated damages should be answered ex ante, and where mitigation is required but no mitigation is attempted it is. That being said we also have a compendium that lists all our casebriefs in alpha order. Baker responds: (1) “In principle” and “Subject to” suggest merely future negotiation on add’l, explicit, or even different terms, as does “further”, and (2) Texaco allows enforcement and gap-filling absent explicit terms, even if such terms were contemplated in the expected much longer memorialization. Eastern Airlines v. Gulf Oil F: Impracticability defense by Gulf because the energy crisis make provision at the price impracticable. H: Good faith. After three years, the frame fatigues and buckles, becoming worthless. An aggressive restitution measure, plus the two levels of reduction used in Britton, yields the same amount as the expectancy measure. Context does matter sometimes. Downside: If the rule is too lax, promisor could abuse the rule and hold out for a higher wage even though a more firm consideration doctrine would have induced performance, thus inefficiently reducing the return to the promisee (captain) and making fishermen too wealthy. You cannot charge more just because he had more resources: you must use the reasonable, market price (if the mkt. Note: Do not confuse quasi contracts (implied in law) and Implied Contracts (implied in fact). H: Ct. says the parties never contemplated this, and it goes to the very substance of the agreement, and thus the contract is void! SP compromises efficient breach, but not severely, because you just hand over the land (there is no spilling of paint, etc. Then click here. Why have SP? The essence of consideration is a bargained-for exchange: Past, moral and non-responsive considerations don’t count. That is, is there enough to justify a reasonable person’s belief that a contract has been formed by mutual assent? Cannot have a pretend/sham exchange, but consideration needn’t be fully compensatory. Restatement § 214, UCC 2-202. Voted #1 site for Buying Textbooks. Hypo: If Fox could calculate that her suffering for doing the inferior film was worth $250K to her, and they would make $500K on the film, then it is efficient for her to mitigate because they will compensate her (with $1M total) and they’d gain $250K on the venture overall. The UCC sides that way for the sale of goods. This was one of Ford's grounds for a motion . The rule is good, the verdict is not. Ford v. Norton. Hypo: If Coop made a ctct with Bambino for same price and qty. (Lake River Corp.) Hypo: Construction Company (CC) and Amusement Park (AP) contract for the building of a roller coaster. Read the full-text amicus brief (PDF, 136KB) Issue. Pure strategy is bad faith; enterprise economic incentive is good faith. Restatement (2d) § 351: Unforeseeability & related limitations on dmgs. One exception is if I confer a benefit of $500 to you at a cost of $200 to me (i.e. Texaco v. Pennzoil F: Parties agree “subject to written agreement”. 477 U.S. 399 Brief Filed: 1/86 Court: Supreme Court of the United States Year of Decision: 1986. There may be waste and/or abuse here, but that doesn’t change the fact that the parties entered into the agreement b/c they genuinely believed it was in their best interests to do so, and thus there was a bargained-for exchange; sometimes when contracts turn out so badly ex post the court goes back and finds a violation of an implicit term, but this is usually incorrect. Material Breach and Damages: Cts. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.. On Friday, the justices will hold their Jan. 22 … The buyer’s promise to buy from the seller is thus an illusory promise, because he will buy only when the price rises. H: No replevin; doesn’t apply to unexecuted ctcts and this wasn’t yet executed. The Ct. rarely concerns itself with whether the bargain is a good one or bad one. So, if C=5, and P=1, and A=2 (L=100): Now they only stand to lose 3 if they breach/don’t perform. ACCEPTANCE See Restatements on page 319-320. The issue is whether or not the changed circumstances qualify as an excuse). The anti-Bush (breach and sue) rule could foster a race to breach. Consider the effect on parties’ incentives to invest; Expectation damages are not always most efficient (Construction Company Hypo – below) What looks high isn’t always!! That seems like it should definitely be the case, but is this an option contract? Also, breach could lead to a more efficient outcome if there is a more profitable pursuit in which the breaching party could participate (see Ford). Where the buyer is a pure speculator, the contract will not be enforced for lack of mutuality. Les nouvelles primes gouvernementales vous permettent d’obtenir jusqu’à :. Audio Transcription for Oral Argument - November 15, 1962 in Ford v. Ford W. Francis Marion: There was a denial, a general denial put in only. Restatement (2d) § 139: Reliance and the Statute of Frauds: An oral promise may become enforceable if the person making the promise has induced reliance. D CAN SHOW LOSSES HIS BREACHED SAVED P Note: These are not really reliance cases. The motion was heard by the district court without a jury, and was denied in an opinion reported in U.S. v. Ford, 3 F.2d 643. We do not use restitution in quasi-contract because the value conferred could be infinitely valuable; instead we use the reasonable market value. Then, he says, Bambino could sue Coop and capture that surplus. A. Strangely, the Ct. will not enforce damages that are too high, but it will enforce damages that are too low. As it turns out, the mkt. But, if you really believed these parties never contemplated the event that arose, then it doesn’t matter who takes the loss in that case, but the court should use the case as a chance to set a good default rule/precedent. Ford v. Wainwright Case Brief. Under the UCC and the Restatement as discussed in the supplemental notes, the ct. could just add a reasonable price and apply it to the 16,000 tons—though the ct. here seems unsure that even the quantity was specified in this case. changes, and therefore § 2-713 is best because it discourages breach. Moreover, promisor has an express right to sell both skirts and blouses, which these are, and there are policy reasons against prohibiting the free use of land. Commercial Leases Case Study: We will be studying commercial leases b/c they are symptomatic of the good faith dilemma. Goodman: P.E., not Ctct, RELIANCE DMGS (Only b/c ct. treats it as promissory estoppel, but should have treated it like a ctct case with expectation dmgs-works out the same anyway). H: Impracticability defense fails; The events of the crisis were reasonably foreseeable at the time of the contract and Gulf thus did or should have contemplated the contingency. So, you want a rule that only sides with promisee when it’s efficient and doesn’t when it’s inefficient. View Team B-IRAC_WK5.pptx from LAW 531 at University of Phoenix. Should it matter if he lives or dies? Unilateral ctct b/c until pmt neither side is bound. The captain will agree to whatever, knowing it’s not binding, and the fishermen, once they know this, will never again agree to modified terms. Arguably the store is just looking out for all its customers generally, and keeping prices lower with this policy, but the ct. seems influenced by the fact that the clerk knew she couldn’t pay and was just preying on her with this clause. Notes on SP: An argument for SP: A contract price is the value of the item to the seller, not the purchaser. After the California Supreme Court declined to hear the case, Ford appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the punitive damages awarded by … [B/c Coop can’t recover from Tongish, but has a ctct to fulfill w/ Bambino and would lose; to avoid this, the parties would adopt a ctct just like the one they did adopt, where the risk lies with Bambino, and Tongish only has to delivery whatever it receives from Tongish, but this only works if Tongish has to deliver whether the market rises or falls; now, thanks to the ct., they do.] They’ll suffer the high costs of performance, receive the relatively low contract price (which won’t be fully compensatory to them, or else they’d happily perform in the first place), and be worse off than before, but they’ll be better off than if they breach and then have to pay out huge damages later. The Sheriff’s Office placed Ford on light-duty tasks for a year. Does not matter if uncle derives no financial benefit.) 912, 127 L.Ed.2d 358 (1994). Frustration of Purpose Frustration is not significantly different from impossibility or impracticability, as Krell’s cite to Taylor suggests. Goodman) Restatement clouds the issue because it reflects all these incorrect holdings. BUT, in the case of idiosyncratic tastes, the ct. is quicker to question this and will hear evidence that maybe the value conferred isn’t the market value. Can he, or is the contract absolutely thrown out? We do not use restitution in quasi-contract because the value conferred could be infinitely valuable; instead we use the reasonable market value. Doing extra work in the event that some sailors left was an implicit term of the original ctct, so the modification is void for lack of consideration. Under CBS, I prevail because I treated the warranty as an insurance policy. Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General) - SCC Cases drop, so expectancy would only be $2K). [In test question, mitigation was extended to case where LDs were included, probably only because it was part of the ongoing deal.] Restatement (2d) § 160: Action intended or known to be likely to prevent another from learning a fact is equivalent to an assertion that the fact does not exist. Bush wants to use restitution ($5K) and Canfield wants expectancy (because Bush benefited $3K for mkt. SHAM. If the response looks more like a counteroffer (further negotiation), it is, and there has been no acceptance, even if the criteria laid out are really similar to acceptance. 855, affirmed without a published opinion, 116 F.3d 1492 (11th Cir. Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co. (1929) F: County had ctct for bridge and repudiated. That is, the contract is not really one-sided as Cardozo says it is, even if Wood has complete discretion. Parties contemplated the risk, at least in the general sense and explicitly assigned the risk to the buyer in an “as is” clause. At long last, here is the case brief for Ford v. Duncan. Hierarchy: Express terms, course of performance, course of dealing, then trade usage (custom) Raffles v. Wichelhaus (EARLY case; not consistent w/ doctrine/Frigaliment) F: Peerless boats case. That is, the Ct. is basically helping the poor guy out, but can’t say that, and efficiency gets to the same goal in different words. The court should just call it what it is. UCC is all about filling in missing terms with what is “reasonable”. MUTUAL MISTAKE In short, if the parties intended to lay the arising loss on one party, the ct. will try to lay the loss with that party. If damages are fully compensatory, and promisor is fully solvent, does the requirement of consideration for modification ever matter? 63. Adler: The Ct. gets it wrong again! Dept. App. Restatement (2d) §161: When a non-disclosure is equivalent to an assertion: (a) Only where he knows that disclosure of the fact is necessary to prevent some previous assertion from becoming a misrepresentation or from being fraudulent or material, (b) where he knows that disclosure would correct a mistake off the other party as to a basic assumption on which that party is making the contract and if non-disclosure amounts to a failure to act in good faith and in accordance with reasonable standards of fair dealing, (c) where he knows that disclosure would correct a mistake of the other party as to the contents or effect of a writing, evidencing or embodying an agreement in whole or in part, and (d) where the other person is entitled to know the fact because of a relation of trust and confidence between them. In a promissory estoppel case the court enforces a gratuitous promise because of reliance on it. Ct. distinguishes this from Allied, where the breach was in good faith, and only lost profits were awarded. It seems like she would have at least had a conversation about it, given her purported understanding. 2013-P-0091 - vs - : GENE A. FORD, et al., : Defendant-Appellant. Given that the buyer knew of the possible confusion, I suspect that he can’t enforce, but could he enforce the contract on the terms most favorable to the seller (that is, for the Buick?)? Question: Is it true that buyer always wins in UCC cases, or is there still the same argument? I sue for the replacement value of the bike. BUT, if you are worried about an option, you don’t allow for acceptance by performance. Hypo: If you know about me that (1) I own a Buick and a Replicar, (2) I love my Replicar, and (3) I’m financially distressed, and at lunch I offer “to sell you my car for $10K”, and you accept on the spot. 1993) (4 times) Mendez v. State, 138 S.W.3d 334 (Tex. (Even though this confers an ex ante benefit on offeror but nothing on offeree.) Lake River Corp. v. Carborundum (1985) H: (Posner) Parties that agree to bad liquidated damages clauses should be held to them, period. There was no indication that Ford had any mental incapacity at the time of the crime, his trial, or his sentencing. (Johns v. Ward, 170 Cal.App.2d 780, 789, 339 P.2d 926; 4 Witkin, Cal. Jacob & Youngs v. Kent F: Contract for construction of house; Reading pipe not installed, but equally valuable pipe was; cost of completion damages extremely high, but mkt. It was not discussed in any of the correspondence. There are thus natural arguments in favor of and against the paternalism here. H: Excluded because it counters written agreement that purports to be a full document. Evidence shows Lucy believed Zehmer was serious when he signed. Ct. uses four factors to judge whether or not parties intend to be bound only by the later writing: Whether the parties reserved the right to be bound only by written agreement Acceptance of partial performance All essential terms are agreed upon (essential term=absence of which will defeat the formation of a ctct) Complexity/magnitude of the transaction requires writing Adler: The agreement lacked a “description of the mechanics of various aspects of the transaction”, and the court thought it could fill these terms in sufficiently that it could both recognize a breach and determine a remedy for that breach. Buyer complains. This makes no sense (Posner, Adler). If Ct. can see the bargained-for exchange, they’ll treat it as contracts case, but if it’s hard to see, the ct. sometimes uses promissory estoppel and gets confused as hell. (If there is a bargained-for exchange, or if there is just an offer and no promise, promissory estoppel has no place in the opinion) Also, sometimes it seems reliance is the only reasonable damage award, and ctcts can’t get you there, but Promissory Estoppel will (i.e. Tenant can expand business elsewhere. That being said we also have a compendium that lists all our casebriefs in alpha order. (So, if we make a contract for you to get up and eat breakfast, and I want that in return, it doesn’t matter if I later show that you would have done it anyway; it’s consideration for me, and that’s all that matters.) No consideration for the option. Cumbest: Stereo equipment is unique. If you do not see a casebook listed contact us about doing it. H: Expectation award of legitimate expenses + lost profits minus expenditures after repudiation. Ford Motor Co. v. Gonzalez :: Class Notes. When you start applying it to parties that might have incentive to look for a new job, it saps their incentive to look! Restatement (2d) § 27: Written Memorial: (WORTHLESS): Agreements can be preliminary negotiations, but if the assent is sufficient to form a ctct, then the anticipated writing doesn’t negate the agreement (Adler: A ctct is a ctct unless it’s not). But in a lot of transactions people aren’t just indifferent to the price. (Not a perfect solution for all the same reasons) This only makes sense for companies anyway, since it’d take them forever to run through every detail with each customer; also makes sense, even for non-dupes, so they don’t have to lose time reading every agreement. Adler: FORGET questions about giving up rights; just ask if it’s a bargained-for exchange. Quasi contracts are legal fictions. That warranty is obviously enforceable, as there is consideration. 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