Evans v. Mason

How courts have described this case

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• noting that voir dire provides an opportunity to “determine the real state of [prospective jurors’] minds so that a fair and impartial jury can be chosen”
• “the doctrine of part performance is purely an equitable doctrine, and is not available to sustain an action at law on a contract within the statute of frauds”
• “[O]ne who 27 has rendered services pursuant [to an unenforceable contract] is not remediless for he can 28 sue on a quantum meruit, a promise to pay the reasonable value thereof being implied.”
• Where an oral contract is within the statute of frauds and no action can be maintained thereon for that reason, “one who has rendered services pursuant thereto is not remediless for he can sue on a quantum meruit, a promise to pay the reasonable value thereof being implied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).