Can Your Email Exchange Become A Binding Contract?
Certain contracts must be in writing and signed, points out David E. Peterson of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. But what if the “writing” is an email exchange? Is that enforceable, and if so, then what suffices as the signature?
Peterson discusses a recent case interpreting the Texas version of the Uniform Electronic Transaction Act and how this works in the case of an email exchange.
“In Khoury v. Tomlinson, the Texas Court of Appeals considered a situation where the parties had exchanged emails to resolve a dispute among themselves,” according to the article. In the end, a court held that Tomlinson’s name, appearing in the sender field of the email, was sufficient to constitute a signature.