Greer v. Kooiker

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that statute of frauds, which states that certain contracts “shall be void,” actually renders them voidable (citing MinmStat. § 513.05 (2014))
• explaining that statute of frauds, which states that certain contracts “shall be void,” actually renders them voidable (citing Minn. Stat. § 513.05 (2014))
• upholding district court finding of oral contract because finding was not clearly erroneous
• listing only the signature of the vendor as an essential element of a contract for the sale of land in dictum but affirming a finding that a memorandum signed by both parties to a real estate transaction was a binding contract
• “a party to a contract on which others have relied cannot avoid the duties of the document by showing he did not know its contents.”
• “parties may assent to a contract one of the terms of which is that a later, more formal evidence of it may be executed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).