Stearns v. Emery-Waterhouse Co.

How courts have described this case

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• equitable estoppel based on promisor's fraudulent conduct can avoid application of statute of frauds in breach of oral contract action
• “we decline [the] invitation to accept promissory estoppel as permitting avoidance of the statute in employment contracts that require longer than one year to perform”
• \[W]e reject the part performance doctrine as an avenue for avoidance of the statute of frauds in the employment context\
• rejects part performance as an avenue for avoidance of the statute of frauds in the employment context, but allows recovery for services actually performed in quantum meruit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).