 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1910 - 858 pages
...only one construction. What is really sought by plaintiff's counsel is to so change by parol evidence a contract required by the statute of frauds to be in writing, that it shall be between different parties than those stated in the contract itself. We are of the opinion... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1874 - 648 pages
...evidence may be received to show a mistake in a written instrument, whether it is one given in the case of a contract required by the statute of frauds to be in writing or not. The statute does not apply to such a case. Adam Eq. 85, 169, and cases collected in... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1884 - 792 pages
...and furnished during the period of extension, would be to permit a recovery upon an oral variation of a contract, required by the Statute of Frauds to be in writing. If the contract of the railroad company was varied by the agreement to extend the time of... | |
 | 1884 - 1022 pages
...and furnished during the period of extension, would be to permit a recovery upon an oral variation of a contract, required by the statute of frauds to be in writing. If the contract of the railroad company was varied by the agreement to extend the time of... | |
 | 1901 - 1172 pages
...property offered in exchange for the lots. Held that, the oral modification being a modification of terms of a contract required by the statute of frauds to be in writing, there could be no recovery. 2. Where the paragraph of a complaint seeks to recover for certain... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1887 - 824 pages
...may substitute for it a new written one.3 And — Dischargv. — A parol discharge will be good even of a contract required by the Statute of Frauds to be in writing.4 § 175. imperfect. — Where, on the face of the writing, it appears to be incomplete or... | |
 | 1887 - 1076 pages
...which the parties intended the contract to apply. The reason assigned for thus limiting the reformation of a contract required by the statute of frauds to be in writing is that parol evidence in that case does not conflict with the statute of frauds, since the... | |
 | Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - 1887 - 1032 pages
...which the parties intended the contract to apply. The reason assigned for thus limiting the reformation of a contract required by the statute of frauds to be in writing is that parol evidence in that case does not conflict with the statute of fraud*, since the... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - 1894 - 776 pages
...are required by the statute of frauds to be in writing, is expressly negatived. A parol modification of a contract required by the statute of frauds to be in writing can have no existence except perhaps in respect to the •consideration in contracts for sale... | |
 | William John Tossell - 1906 - 924 pages
...requirements of the statute of frauds. Egle v. Morrison. 407 It is no defense to an action to compel spec! fie 'performance of a contract required by the statute of frauds to be in writing, that it is not signed by both parties thereto; it is sufficient if it is signed by one of the parties to... | |
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The reason assigned for thus limiting the reformation of a contract required by the statute of frauds... 
