Wright v. . Allred

The question for decision, presented by this appeal, is the correctness of the ruling of the trial court that a verbal agreement to lease real property for one year with privilege of renewal thereafter for four successive years was within the statute of frauds, and that parol evidence to establish it was incompetent.

The North Carolina statute of frauds, Gr. S., 22-2, declares that leases and contracts for leasing land exceeding in duration three years from the making thereof shall be void unless the contract or some memorandum thereof be put in writing and signed by the party to be charged…