Fitzpatrick Building Co. v. Healy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““Where it appears that one, without negligence on his part, has been induced by another’s conduct to enter into apparent contractual relations with or to receive the benefit of the services of such other person, when he has the right to believe that he is dealing with a third person, and it further appears that to hold him liable to any one except the person with whom he believed he was dealing will result in loss to him, he will not be held so liable. To hold otherwise would be to establish a contract which at least one of the parties never intended to make, and likewise to force a contract upon a party which he did not voluntarily enter into, to his damage and against his protest, and this without the existence of all the elements of a purely implied contract.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Everson v. J. L. Owens Manufacturing Co.