Contract Law

The facts of this case are as follows Dennis is a twelve year old, whose custom and practice is to trim the hedges of all neighbors’ bushes on his block. Mr. Wilson, his next-door neighbor, saw Dennis walking home and asked, “If you trim the hedges in my yard I will pay you $10.00”. Dennis then smiled and continued walking home. The next day Dennis trimmed the hedges, knocked on Mr. Wilson’s door for his …

…fact Mr. Wilson has done business with Dennis before or if he had known of Dennis’s reputation to do all the neighbors bushes, then I would consider Dennis smiling as a possibility of acceptance to Mr. Wilson’s offer. If this is the case then the contract is valid and if Dennis wanted to he could bring suit against Mr. Wilson to collect compensatory damages in the amount of ten dollars for services completed.