Lunning v. Land O'Lakes

AMDAHL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court, Third Judicial District, granting defendant judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or in the alternative, a new trial on the issue of liability on the ground that the evidence viewed most favorably to the plaintiff entitled defendant to judgment as a matter of law.

The issue is whether the evidence was sufficient to create a jury question as to the existence of either promissory or equitable estoppel and thus take an oral contract not performable within one year, out of the statute of frauds. Minn.Stat. § 513.06 (1978).

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