{"id":5902,"date":"2021-08-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2021-08-20T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:03:56","slug":"settlement-required-future-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5902","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Required Future Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/court.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/court.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2570\" width=\"-52\" height=\"-25\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courts enforce contracts based on the parties\u2019 intent. The intent is determined from the language of the contract. In the case of Pelopidas, LLC, et al., Respondents, vs. Rachel Keller, Appellant, the circuit court determined that the language of the contract known as the \u201cSettlement Memorandum\u201d was ambiguous. The respondents claimed that the words \u201cshall be\u201d meant that Keller\u2019s stock would be surrendered immediately, and the circuit court agreed. However, Keller argued that \u201cshall be\u201d meant that her stock would be surrendered sometime later, and ultimately, the Missouri Court of Appeals agreed. It was decided that \u201cshall be\u201d refers to a future obligation, and if a deadline is not explicitly decided first, then it must occur within a reasonable amount of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=179376\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pelopidas, LLC, et al., Respondents, vs. Rachel Keller, Appellant.<\/em><\/a> Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District &#8211; ED109395<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>If you would like to speak to an attorney about dispute resolution or being sued, call our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/\">hoorfarlaw.com<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courts enforce contracts based on the parties\u2019 intent. The intent is determined from the language of the contract. In the case of Pelopidas, LLC, et al., Respondents, vs. Rachel Keller, Appellant, the circuit court determined that the language of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5902\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}