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Farmer ordered to pay after judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Considering verbal contracts are enforceable I'm not surprised the judge would rule this way.
Yeah, but I think it was a miscommunication. The contract was sent over text with “please confirm the contract”, but he was expecting a fax to sign and the thumbs up was a confirmation that he would sign it once he got it. Maybe I don’t know enough but I do kinda have to side with the farmer on this one.
Edit: ok I read a bit more, maybe not as this article mentions that they’ve previously confirmed messages over text. Idk