Drake v. Livesay

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the statute of frauds poses no problem when a party adduces “proof of a sufficient written memorandum of the transaction”
• finding that a memorandum of an oral contract to sell “property . . . identified as ‘Emmett and Ethel Dunlow’s property’ and ‘this same property that I had told you we would sell to you’” “express[ed] the essential terms of the contract”
• addressing authority in the agency context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).