Although there are many facts in favor of Chou there was never a signed contract which legally means that there was never a contract in existence because there was no written signed documentation. 3. Does the fact that the parties were communicating by e-mail have any impact on your analysis in Questions 1
Although an oral agreement was reached at the meeting between the two, there was a negotiation agreement stating exclusively that no distribution agreement was in place, unless in writing, and therefore there was no official agreement between the parties (Melvin, 2011). This would work against Chou in that there was no written agreement with the distribution rights, or written statement regarding the 90-day negotiations period. This could hurt Chou because a court could
This is a fact that would weigh in support of Chou; however, both parties only made a verbal offer and not a written agreement to demonstrate this fact. The agreement didn’t get drawn up during the initial 90-day term so the new administration would not be responsible to distribute the board game and had a valid reason to move Chou away rather than honor the verbal agreement. Does the fact that the parties were communicating by e-mail have any impact on your analysis in Questions 1 and 2 (above)? The basis that both parties were interacting by email had no effect on the analysis of the case. E-mail represents a form of electronic communication and not considered signed agreement.
The e-mail never mentioned the word “contract,” it did not have too because the four elements of contract formation were not present. The exclusive negotiation agreement stipulated that no distribution contract will exist unless it was in writing. Because of this clause no contract could be established unless in writing. What Facts may Weight in Favor of or against Chou The following facts may weight against Chou in terms of the parties objective intent to contract. The exclusive negotiation agreement stipulated that no distribution contract existed unless it was in writing.
Chou and BTT did not have a blinding or enforceable contact. 2. What fact may weigh in favor of or against Chou in terms of the parties’ objective intent to contract? BTT manufactures, and distributes board games and other toys. BTT was interested in distributing Strat and entered an agreement to pay Chou $25,000.00 Strat is a new strategy game that Chou invented.
This resulted in a judgment against him. This information was never revealed to Pennell. Fountain and Pennell approached First Reliance bank to request funding after two other lending institutions denied the request for financing. At this time, Ewart was the chief banking officer at First Reliance. Without the presence of Fountain, Ewart called Pennell in for a meeting to discuss
Claims he still cant make calls after participating in the KYC registration though it's not reflecting on TABS that he has registerred and barring still has not been lifted, pls assist. claims he still cannot make calls with his line even after registerin,cannot view his claims on TABS and cannot tell weather or not the barring has been removed, he has called before now for this same reason, please assist. Called to know more about KYC registration, claiming to get a message to go and registerdespite having registerd line so was advised to ignore the message that it's a general message sent out to all airtel numbers targetted at those who have not registerd.. called to know, if she can still go ahead and re-register as she as registered before but she got a message asking her to go and register, she was informed to please disregard the message as that would no longer be
When Chou received an email with the details of what they were going to agree upon, he presumed the email was the contract and did not proceed in drawing up a contract himself. Months passed, and when BTT changed management, BTT notified Chou that BTT was not going to peruse a distribution agreement for Chou's new strategy game, (Strat). In the Case Scenario, the two parties, BTT, which is the offeror and Chou which is the offeree were engaging in a goods or products type contract. State statutory law governs contracts that involved goods or products such as the strategy game that BTT was distributing for Chou. With the exception of Louisiana state statutory law.
The beta for Boston Beer Company cannot be calculated as it has not been listed before. The pure play method cannot be used because their competitors have only recently listed and there are no historical betas for them yet. The beta for Boston Beer has hence been arbitrarily calculated by taking Anheuser-Busch’s beta of 1 and incorporating greater risk. 4. The market risk premium was not given in the case study and has been taken as the spread between stock and bond annual returns over the period 1926 – 1997 to be 7.2% 5.
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