Webster Tractor & Implement Co. v. Roseberry’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
March 1971
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Otwell v. Vaughan · 17 So. 2d 486 - Buettner v. Polar Bar Ice Cream Co. · Williams v. American Employers' Ins. Co. · Succession of Wengert · Delaney v. Morter
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““It is elementary that an obligation without a cause or with a false or unlawful cause can have no effect and that such obligation must be supported by consideration, without which there is no valid obligation or contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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