Ed Dewitte Ins. Agency, Inc. v. Fin. Assocs. Midwest, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by Stegall, J.:

*27 This case is about the statute of frauds, codified in Kansas at K.S.A. 33-101 et seq. As its name suggests, the statute was designed to prevent fraud by requiring parties to reduce certain oral agreements to writing. The writing requirement applies to any agreement that cannot be performed within one year. But common law has long excepted from this requirement any oral agreement in which one of the parties has fully performed his or her part of the agreement. In statute-of-frauds' terminology, the exception "removes" the agreement from…