Phelan v. Leonard

How courts have described this case

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

• writing relied upon “must be read as a whole, and by reasonable construction and necessary implication”
• noting “the well-established rule that in a contract action a memorandum sufficient to meet the requirements of the Statute of Frauds must contain expressly or by reasonable implication all the material terms of the agreement”
• defendant’s written acknowledgment of plaintiffs performance in bringing about stock transaction was the “most important” basis for permitting recovery in quantum meruit
• “[t]he Statute of Frauds was not enacted to afford persons a means of evading just obligations”
• a claim seeking quantum meruit prays for the reasonable value of services rendered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).