Sierens v. Clausen

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Bureau County (striking the complaint of Kenneth Sierens and James Thompson, a partnership doing business as Mineral Elevator Company) dismissing an action against defendant Edwin Clausen. The action was instituted for breach of two oral contracts for the sale of soybeans.

Mineral Elevator Company is a grain elevator. Edwin Clausen is a faimer. The single issue presented on appeal is whether the trial court correctly determined that the applicable Statute of Frauds (which is contained in the sales article of the Illinois Uniform…