Rogalsky v. Ryan

Memorandum: The offer and acceptance was a sufficient memorandum to comply with the statute. Although counsel for the parties prepared a deed without reserving possession of the house, barn and garden to the defendants and covered that part of the agreement in a separate lease, this was unnecessary as the deed itself could have been drawn to reserve defendants’ right to possession in that part of the premises for a period of five years. The fact that the lease was prepared and contained terms objectionable to either party did not affect the original offer and acceptance as that agreement…