Ainsworth v. Young Women's Christian Ass'n of New Orleans

How courts have described this case

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• noting the Connecticut Supreme Court “previously has not addressed whether promises that otherwise would be subject to the requirements of the statute of frauds may be enforced on promissory estoppel grounds in the absence of compliance with the statute of frauds”
• ‘‘an action for negligent misrepresenta- tion requires the plaintiffs in the present case to prove that [the defendant] made a misrepresentation of fact’’
• “[i]f the acts are reasonably explicable on some other ground, they are not sufficient to take the case out of the statute [of frauds]”
• damages in negligent mis- representation action are limited to pecuniary losses caused by justifiable reliance on information at issue
• well settled that breach of contract and promissory estoppel are inconsistent theories of recovery, as promissory estoppel is appropriate only in absence of contract
• ‘‘[e]quitable estoppel is a doctrine that operates in many contexts to bar a party from asserting a right that it otherwise would have but for its own conduct’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).