1. Highlight the pertinent facts;

2. Identify the issue of law posed by the case problem. This will be in the form of a question based on a legal concept from the chapter.

3. What should be the decision in the case? (i.e. the answer to the issue).

4. The reasoning for such decision.

Alpha Rolling Mill Corporation (Alpha Corporation), by letter dated June 8, offered to sell Brooklyn Railroad Company (Brooklyn Company) two thousand to five thousand tons of fifty-pound iron rails on certain specified terms and added that, if the offer was accepted, Alpha Corporation would expect to be notified prior to June 20. Brooklyn Company, on June 16, by fax, referring to Alpha Corporation's offer of June 8, directed Alpha Corporation to enter an order for one thousand two hundred tons of fifty-pound iron rails on the terms specified. The same day, June 16, Brooklyn Company, by letter to Alpha Corporation, confirmed the fax. On June 18, Alpha Corporation, by telephone, declined to fulfill the order. Brooklyn Corporation, on June 19, wrote Alpha Corporation: "Please enter an order for two thousand tons of rails as per your letter of the eighth. Please forward written contract. Reply." In reply to Brooklyn Company's repeated inquiries concerning whether the order for two thousand tons of rails had been entered, Alpha denied the existence of any contract between Brooklyn Company and itself. Brooklyn Company sued Alpha Corporation for breach of contract.