Kitchen v. Kitchen

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “that an ‘irrevocable license’ by estoppel cannot be created ... because [it]... would violate the statute of frauds”
• noting that the arguments before the circuit court were not as “refined” as they were on appeal, but those initial arguments were nonetheless “sufficient to avoid sanctions”
• explaining that a complaint is not frivolous merely because it ultimately did not succeed
• explaining that “[n]ot every error in legal analysis constitutes a frivolous position”
• rejecting doctrine of easement by estoppel, concluding that an interest in land cannot be established on the basis of estoppel
• “The mere fact that plaintiffs did not ultimately prevail does not render the supplemental complaint frivolous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).