Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Defender's Instinct (Cerberus Tactical K9 Book 3). The implication of a promise here finds support in many circumstances. Only on such an interpretation is the United States justified in expecting the plaintiff to prepare for performance and to remain ready and willing to deliver. The plaintiffs next contend that the delivery and acceptance of five sample suits were such partial performance by the plaintiffs as afforded a sufficient consideration for the defendant's promises, even though there was no obligation to support the contract at its inception. Atty., of Hartford, Conn. (Milton Nahum, Asst. Surely it would not have been understood thus: "We accept your offer and bind you to your promise to deliver, but we do not promise either to take the rock or pay the price." 4; First Methodist Episcopal Church v. Soden, 131 Wash. 228, 229 P. 534, 536, par. The following stipulation was indorsed on said contract: "This contract is signed with the understanding that said W. P. Lawson and wife are not obligated hereunder in the event the deal between them and the Hamilton National Bank is not closed." 425, this court held that that contention of the defendant could not be sustained. Reversed and remanded with directions. for delivery at WP 2752 — Mollison Airport, Bridgeport, Ct." Then come typed provisions which, so far as material, are as follows: The Bid, signed by the plaintiff, provides that, The Acceptance, besides its date and the signature of an Assistant State Procurement Officer, contains only the words "Accepted as to items numbered 1." 1; Pollock v. Shubert Theatrical Co., 146 App. Div. "The implication is that the plaintiff's business organization will be used for the purpose for which it is adapted. 642; Jacquin v. Boutard, 89 Hun, 437; 157 N. Y. (BOWEN, L. J., in The Moorcock, 14 P. D. 64, [92] 68). The alternative of giving notice was not difficult of performance, but it was a sufficient consideration to support the contract. 728; W. G. Taylor Co. v. Bannerman, supra; Mueller v. Bethesda Mineral Spring Co., supra; Baker Transfer Co. v. Merchants R. & I. Mfg. 10 Tex.Jur. 179, 209 (1921); 1 Corbin §§162, 163 (1963); Corbin, The Effect of Options on Consideration, 34 Yale L.J. 517; Acker v. Hotchkiss, 97 N. Y. A covenant, as distinguished from a condition precedent, is an agreement of one of the parties to a contract to act or forebear to act in a certain specified way, and in a proper case, such agreement may be implied. If the United States did not so intend, it certainly set a skilful trap for unwary bidders. 150 F.2d 642SYLVAN CREST SAND & GRAVEL CO.v.UNITED STATES.No. 101, 106; Russell v. Allerton, 108 N. Y. Click here for a list of local Rocky Mountain dealers. The four documents are substantially alike and it will suffice to describe one of them. No one can read the document as a whole without concluding that the parties intended a contract to result from the Bid and the Government's Acceptance. 425, 427. 337, are cases of this kind. Philo C. Calhoun, of Bridgeport, for appellee. The motion was denied. J. Co. 235 Mass. We think the count is sufficient and that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer thereto. Silver. College of Law. No time of shipment is specified otherwise than by the words "to be shipped within three months." (3) Because it appears that said instrument by reason of the uncertainty of the terms and the lack of mutuality in the obligations it purports to create, is unenforceable as a contract, and is wholly invalid, void, and of no effect. The contracts in suit were introduced as exhibits at the hearing on the motion. Natural instinct. We are not to suppose that one party was to be placed at the mercy of the other (Hearn v. Stevens & Bro., Ill App. The complaint alleges that on October 20, 1919, the defendant made a contract with the plaintiff, doing business under the name of the Bridgeport Glass Company, in the form following.—  Â. It is a printed government form, with the blank spaces filled in in typewriting, consisting of a single sheet bearing the heading: Below the heading, under the subheadings, follow in order the "Invitation," the "Bid," and the "Acceptance by the Government." Consult Restatement Second §225, Illus. The order relied on by the plaintiffs was as follows: "Date 7/3/18 The Gotham Novelty Co., 37 West 26th Street, New York Order given by the W. & B. Mfg. Upon the pleadings, consisting of complaint, answer and reply, the defendant moved to dismiss the action for failure of the complaint to state a claim or, in the alternative, to grant summary judgment for the defendant on the ground that no genuine issue exists as to any material fact. Its "acceptance" should be interpreted as a reasonable business man would have understood it. See Gaillard Realty Co. v. Rogers Wire Works, Inc., 1st Dep't., 215 App.Div. 376; Commercial W. & C. Co. v. Northampton P. C. Co., 115 App. Boys' wash suits at $16.50 a dozen. JOHN M. REID, Judge, presiding. 393; 190 N. Y. On July 25, 1928, appellants brought suit in the circuit court of Jackson county to recover from Appellee [382] damages claimed to be resultant from a failure of the latter to perform a contract entered into between said parties for the sale of a laundry business in the city of West Frankfort. Surely it would not have been understood thus: "We accept your offer and bind you to your promise to deliver, but we do not promise either to take the rock or pay the price." 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