Opdyke Investment v. NORRIS GRAIN COMPANY

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “extrinsic evidence may be used to supplement, but not contradict, the terms of the written agreement”
• holding that “extrinsic evidence may be used to supplement, but not contradict, the terms of the written agreement”
• stating that “[t]he doctrine of ‘part performance’ satisfying the statute is as old as the statute itself”
• “A contract to make a contract can fail for indefiniteness if the trier of fact finds that it does not include an essential term to be incorporated into the final contract.”
• “[t]he doctrine of ‘part performance’ satisfying the statute is as old as the statute itself”
• “[T]he ‘nothing in parol’ approach to the statute of frauds has been so dishonored in this Court that it has lost any claim to legitimacy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).