Doughty v. Giffordline Chemical Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “conceding the almost universal rule ... that mere part performance of an oral contract not to be performed within a year does not take it out of the operation of the statute of frauds”
• “[T]he courts hold that where the contract is phrased in terms of a number of years rather than in terms of a lifetime, death operates as a defeasance of the contract rather than as its fulfillment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).