“I would pay a million dollars if that happened” might seem like an empty boast. However, if you took the trouble to make happen what the boasting party wanted to have happen, could you claim the million dollars? The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit addressed that issue in Kolodziej v. Mason, Case No. 14-10644 (decided December 18, 2014). In the circumstances presented, the Court held that the empty boast could not form the basis of an enforceable contract. In the course of a murder prosecution in Florida, the prosecution advanced a theory that the defendant, in… Read more