Long v. City of Glendale

How courts have described this case

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

• holding oral donation of land within statute of frauds as “[t]he statute of frauds precludes a party from bringing a court action to enforce an unwritten agreement for the transfer of an interest in real property.”
• holding oral donation of land within statute of frauds as \[t]he statute of frauds precludes a party from bringing a court action to enforce an unwritten agreement for the transfer of an interest in real property.\
• disregarding a single city councilman’s testimony about the council’s intention for the use of property
• disregarding a single city councilman’s testimony about the council’s intention for the use of property
• Arizona law did not require consideration of extrinsic evidence where “no language in the contract [was] susceptible to competing interpretations”
• “[O]ne cannot claim that one is ‘interpreting’ a written clause with extrinsic evidence if the resulting ‘interpretation’ unavoidably changes the meaning of the writing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).