Taylor v. Greenburg

The appellee worked for the appellant to the value of $99.65, for which he has received no pay. The appellant resists paying because, as he says, the appellee did the work under a parol agreement to buy from the appellant a lot to be paid for partly in work, and partly in money. If that be true, the fact that the agreement was by parol, does not entitle the appellee to abandon the agreement and recover upon a quantum meruit. Swanzey v. Moore, 22 Ill. 63. And the argument and illustration of Catón, J., in that case, are as applicable to the uncertainty, as to the invalidity, of the agreement.

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