Hostetter v. Hoover

How courts have described this case

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

• “The statute of limitations requires that an action to enforce a contract for the sale of real estate be brought within five years.”
• where the part performance exception is met, “equity will enforce the contract to prevent a greater injustice.”
• “[S]pecific performance of an oral contract for the sale of real estate may be ordered where it appears that continuous and exclusive possession of the subject property was taken under the oral contract and improvements were made by the buyer which are not readily compensable in money.”
• “[S]pecific performance of an oral contract for the sale of real estate may be ordered where it appears that continuous and exclusive possession of the subject property was taken under the oral contract and improvements were made by the buyer which are not readily compensable in money.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).