Iacono v. Lyons

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiff’s alleged oral promise to share one-half of lottery winnings with defendant in exchange for defendant’s oral promise to share one-half of winnings with plaintiff would constitute adequate consideration to form contract
• stating that, if an agreement, either by its terms or by the nature of the required acts, cannot be performed within one year, it falls within the statute of frauds and must be in writing.
• although plaintiff had some connection with Missouri, because accident scene, all witnesses to accident, and plaintiff’s medical providers were all located in Canada, no abuse of discretion occurred in trial court finding Canada to be more convenient forum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).