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Contracts-Agreements For Leasing Departments In Retail Stores Nov 1936

Contracts-Agreements For Leasing Departments In Retail Stores

Michigan Law Review

An important merchandising device, largely developed within the last fifteen years, is the "leasing" of certain departments by proprietors of retail stores to outsiders who agree to operate them as integral units of the owner's business. It has been estimated that more than sixty per cent of department stores and more than forty-eight per cent of specialty stores had leased departments in 1930, with the average number of such departments per store in each class at 4.6 and 2.5 respectively.


Contracts - Indefiniteness - Effect Of Buyer's Right To Require Alternative Performance Nov 1936

Contracts - Indefiniteness - Effect Of Buyer's Right To Require Alternative Performance

Michigan Law Review

A buyer, who had agreed to take a certain number of gallons of oil within a viscosity range comprising seven weights, each weight being listed at a different price, repudiated his contract without having specified any of the seven types. In a suit by the seller to recover for breach of contract, held, as the indefiniteness of the agreement precluded any damages save those based on speculative, average, or other arbitrary price, it was not enforcible and plaintiff could not recover for defendant's refusal to accept oil. Wilhelm Lubrication Co. v. Brattrud, (Minn. 1936) 268 N. W. 634.1