Barnett v. Beggs’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““The personal thread which runs through agreements relating to matters of fancy, taste, or judgment has caused a uniformity of judicial opinion that here at least a promisee is practically debarred from questioning the grounds of decision on the part of the promisor, or investigating its propriety. The courts refuse to say that, where a man agrees to pay if he is satisfied with a thing, he can be compelled to pay on proof that some one else is satisfied with it. They recognize that in matters of fancy, taste, or judgment there is no absolute standard as to what is good or bad, and leave each man free to act on his ideas or prejudice as the case may be.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gilman v. Lamson Co.

2. “i “The plaintiff did not agree to satisfy a court or jury, but undertook to satisfy the publishers. It was their taste, their fancy, their interest, and their judgment that was to be satisfied.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gilman v. Lamson Co.