P. J. Willis & Bro. v. Turnley & Bro.

Opinion by

Winkler, J.

§ 789. Contract; definition and requisites of. A contract, in legal contemplation, has been defined to be an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or *434not doing of some particular thing. [1 Pars, on Con. 6.] Or, as defined by Blackstone: “A contract is an agreement upon sufficient consideration to do, or not to do, a particular thing.” [2 Black. Com. 446.] The essentials of a legal contract are: first, the parties; secondly, the consideration; thirdly, the assent of .the parties, without which there is in law no contract; and fourthly, the subject matter of…