Eklund v. Vincent Brass and Aluminum Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statute of frauds does not apply to a contract that can be performed within a year even if unlikely
• finding sufficient reliance shown where employee turned down actual job offer from another employer in reliance on employer’s promise
• circumstances and acts of parties may imply a covenant of good faith into an employment contract
• “Even if the employee [in Roaderick ] died within a year, the contract would not be performed in full.”
• employee’s experience of depression and embarrassment was not dissimilar to that of many laid-off employees
• statement to employee who said he would only accept offer of permanent employment deemed an offer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).