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223036P.pdf 08/25/2023 Commercial Bag Company v. Land O'Lakes, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-3036
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Contracts. The term "Agreement" in the amendment to the
parties' contract was not ambiguous and permitted defendant to terminate
the agreement without cause; there was no ambiguity that warrants a trial
on whether the contract obligated defendant to purchase a specific amount
of bags; the provision of the contract obligating defendant to pay for
printing plates and dies anticipated that there would be costs for those
items before any payment obligation was incurred; as plaintiff failed to
produce any evidence that it incurred costs for plates and dies, the
district court properly entered judgment for defendant on the claim; the
district court did not err in denying plaintiff's request to reform the
contract based on mutual mistake as the record was not sufficient to
create a submissible case on mutual mistake.