Manget v. Carlton

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

It is contended that the plaintiff’s claim of a right in the Ritch farm is necessarily founded upon a contract for the sale of an interest in land within the meaning of the statute of frauds, and that the writing as to this property was insufficient to satisfy the statute. Whether, if a writing was necessary at all, the language in the agreement referring to the property thereafter to be acquired as “the property traded for Avalon” would furnish a sufficient key for its identification, and whether, if it would not, there was yet such performance as would…