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MaterialU.S. case: Lucy v. Zehmer (1954)

Does “it was a joke” prevent a contract from forming?

A 1954 American case about the sale of a farm. Why did the court reject the seller’s defences that it was a joke and that he was drunk? Follow the judgments from the buyer’s claim to the ruling in a single diagram.