{"id":237138,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essaysparlor.com\/he-sold-the-old-one-instead-of-giving-it-to-joe-when-joe-found-out-he-decided-to-sue-steve-is-there-a-contract-in-this-story-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:00:32","slug":"he-sold-the-old-one-instead-of-giving-it-to-joe-when-joe-found-out-he-decided-to-sue-steve-is-there-a-contract-in-this-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/he-sold-the-old-one-instead-of-giving-it-to-joe-when-joe-found-out-he-decided-to-sue-steve-is-there-a-contract-in-this-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"he sold the old one instead of giving it to Joe. When Joe found out, he decided to sue Steve. Is there a contract in this story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>steve is has operated an excavating service for 25 years. Joe is a young man who wants to learn the business in hopes of starting his own someday. At least twice a<br \/>\nweek, Joe will stop by Steve&#8217;s job site, talk a while with Steve, and perform minor repairs on Steve&#8217;s EQUIPMENT. Joe has never asked for or received pay for what he<\/p>\n<p>does. While at a diner with several other people, Steve tells Joe that he appreciated everything Joe has done so much that he was going to give Joe his old backhoe<\/p>\n<p>when he bought a new one. While Joe did not say anything, he was very excited and worked extra hard every time he was at Steve&#8217;s site. When Steve bought a new backhoe,<\/p>\n<p>he sold the old one instead of giving it to Joe. When Joe found out, he decided to sue Steve. Is there a contract in this story? What type(s) of claim might he plead<\/p>\n<p>and what will he have to show to be successful in recovering damages from Steve?<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/question\/view\/478127\/Phoenix-ETH-125-Steve-is-has-operated-an-excavating<br \/>\n\u00a9 HomeworkMinutes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>steve is has operated an excavating service for 25 years. Joe is a young man who wants to learn the business in hopes of starting his own someday. At least twice a week, Joe will stop by Steve&#8217;s job site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/he-sold-the-old-one-instead-of-giving-it-to-joe-when-joe-found-out-he-decided-to-sue-steve-is-there-a-contract-in-this-story-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}