Steinhilber v. Challenger Steel Products Corp.

This motion to dismiss a complaint as insufficient in law, presents a question not often encountered.

It is a suit on a contract which, although drafted by the defendant on its own letterhead and purports to be a binding *771agreement for three years, the defendant contends is unenforcihle, because it lacks mutuality.

In other words, he says, even though you prepare an agreement, if you make it one-sided enough, so that the other party is bound to do absolutely nothing, then the so-called agreement is legally worthless.

This is a sound statement of the law, if we add the caution that the law,…