Just heard about this last night on the WAN show. That’s just nuts.

While the novelty of accepting a contract through emojis is pretty goofy, judges applying contract law to hold people to commercial promises like this is otherwise a pretty run-of-the-mill thing, even when the promise was over text.

It’s a little wild that they’re going to bind contracts by text. Last thing I need is someone replying for me because I’m busy, and now I’m in a contract.

The crux of the case was the defendant had previously accepted contracts via text message with responses like “ok” and “sound good”. All of those contracts were successfully completed.

IMO he was looking to back out of the contract because he could get $41 / bushel instead of the $17 that was in the contract.