Contracts
LAW 511 Section 1
Michael J. Borden
Welcome to Cleveland-Marshall. I look forward to meeting you all very soon.
Your assignment for the first week of class is the following:
Purchase the casebook, Problems in Contract Law (Knapp, Crystal and Prince; 8th Edition)
For Monday, August 21, Please read pages 1-17 and 29-41.
Pages 1-17 are background information, which we will discuss only briefly. We will spend most of the class talking about our first case, Ray v. William G. Eurice & Bros., Inc. Please read this case carefully at least twice. Think about how this dispute got to the point where we are reading about it in an appellate opinion. Pay attention to the reasoning of the lower court. How did the appellate court see things differently than the lower court? Why do you think they saw things differently. What was the appellate court's reasoning? What was the basis for the decision? What did the opinion have to teach us about the concept of intent?
On Tuesday, August 22, we will not meet for Contracts class. Instead, the entire first year class will meet to prepare for the oral argument that will take place in the moot court room at approximately 11:30.
For Thursday, August 24, there wll be no further reading. We will continue our discussion of the Ray v. Eurice Brothers case and our introduction to contract law.