The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 14, Problem 2RE
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Case summary: A person GH owns and operates OGE, an audit entertainment establishment. The person GH signed a work order authorizing the company TCG to create a prototype of a customer chat system at a price of $64,697. Further, he signed an additional work order related to the installation of a customized firewall system with the same company at a price of $12,943. The payment of the money was to be done in monthly installments. Due to some problems, the work was not completed within the time anticipated. Also, the person GH was not able to make timely payments. The company TCG threatened the person GH to cease the work and filed a case regarding breach of contract. The person GH, instead of making further payments, wished to abandon the project.
To find:The decision of the court to consider the person GH as a merchant under the UCC.
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