Edna is a leading brain surgeon in the United States. She enters into a contract

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Edna is a leading brain surgeon in the United States. She enters into a contract to perform a complicated brain surgery on Ben. However, since Edna is very busy, she wants to assign this contract to a less experienced surgeon, William. This would be William's first operation of this type. Ben can object to this assignment and prevent it because the contract between Ben and Edna is a(an)?

a. )contract for services to be performed in the future.

b. ) contract involving personal skill.

a. )contract for services to be performed in the future.

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Question:- Edna is a leading brain surgeon in the United States. She enters into a contract to perform a complicated brain surgery on Ben. However, since Edna is very busy, she wants to assign this contract to a less experienced surgeon, William. This would be William's first operation of this type. Ben can object to this assignment and prevent it because the contract between Ben and Edna is a(an)?

Answer:- b. ) contract involving personal skill.

Reason:- The service of the surgeon is of a special nature thus any delegation of the surgery can be rejected by the client or patients.  

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