Chomicky v. Buttolph

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “ ‘[o]ne may admit the sale of land by a verbal contract, and yet defend an action for specific performance by pleading the statute’ ”
• modifications made in a contract controlled by the Statute of Frauds are subjected to the same requirements of form as the original provisions
• in determining whether to take oral contract out from under the Statute of Frauds in action for specific performance, the court only addressed whether equities required under the part-performance doctrine were sufficient
• part-performance exception to Statute of Frauds not satisfied by making financing arrangements
• “the doctrine of promissory estoppel is applicable only where there is no agreement”
• refusing to enforce an oral real estate contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).