Owen v. Hendricks

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that two letters between plaintiff and defendant, while obviously related to the same subject matter, could not be taken together as constituting the written memorandum describing land as required by statute
• stating the general rule that an unsigned writing may be incorporated by reference to a signed writing only if the signed writing expressly refers to the unsigned writing
• discussing the doctrine of incorporation by reference for purposes of the statute of frauds where one document is signed and another pertaining to the same transaction is unsigned
• for purposes of incorporation by reference “[t]he language used is not important provided the [contract] plainly refers to another writing”
• “[S]everal instruments may be read together when it 10 appears from their terms that they necessarily relate to the same transaction.”
• “It is uniformly held that an unsigned paper may be incorporated by reference in the paper signed by the person to be charged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).