People v. Solovey

How courts have described this case

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• allowing the excuse of partial performance to defeat the statute of frauds where services are “unequivocally referable to the [unwritten] agreement”
• relocating from Toronto to New York City and foregoing other employment offers insufficient injury to invoke promissory estoppel
• noting also that part performance of an oral contract for employment not to be performed within a year does not remove the contract from the operation of the statute of frauds
• “It has long been the law of this State 20 that unless an employment is for a definite period of time, the hiring is presumed to be at will.”
• “If ... an act is equally consistent with an explanation having a basis in other than the alleged oral agreement, the part performance relied upon will not remove the agreement from the bar of the statute of frauds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).