LAWS 4175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dementia, Determinative, Counterclaim
28 Dec 2020
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Parties: george j. dohrmann (plaintiff), swaney (defendant, executor to the estate of virginia h. Offer: a contract granting dohrmann rogers" apartment, everything in the apartment, and that he would incorporate rogers" name into his children"s names. Acceptance: performance, dohrmann"s completion of services and the changing of his children"s names to incorporate rogers" name. Consideration: questionable, may be dohrmann"s agreement to services and the giving up his legal right to choose his children"s names. Procedural history: circuit court granted summary judgment to appellee. Facebook page: geoffrey stated that he used rogers name whenever he had to write his name in full, his high school application, student id, and his atm card. In 2004, rogers transferred legal ownership of the apartment to the trust. Holding: the circuit court"s ruling was affirmed in that there was not sufficient consideration to hold the contract enforceable. Goes against 79 in that the court will not police the adequacy of consideration.
