| Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. v. United States | ||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Argued March 12, 1923 Decided April 9, 1923 |
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| Full case name | Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. United States | |||||
| Citations | 261 U.S. 592 (more) 58 Ct.Cl. 709; 43 S.Ct. 425; 67 L.Ed. 816 |
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| An implied in fact contract exists as, an agreement founded upon a meeting of minds, which, although not embodied in an express contract, is inferred, as a fact, from conduct of the parties showing, in the light of the surrounding circumstances, their tacit understanding. | ||||||
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| Majority | Sanford | |||||
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States, 261 U.S. 592 (1923), is a US Supreme Court case on contract law. The Supreme Court held that an implied in fact contract exists as, “an agreement … founded upon a meeting of minds, which, although not embodied in an express contract, is inferred, as a fact, from conduct of the parties showing, in the light of the surrounding circumstances, their tacit understanding.”
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