Summerlot v. Summerlot

How courts have described this case

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• affirming trial court’s order to transfer property under doctrine of part performance of oral agreement; tenant took possession of land, made payments, and implemented improvements consistent with parties’ agreement
• “Where one party to an oral contract in reliance on that contract has performed his part of the agreement to such an extent that repudiation of the contract would lead to an unjust or fraudulent result, equity will disregard the requirement of a writing and enforce the oral agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).