Partridge v. Cummings

Complainant urges that his parol contract of joint adventure with Cummings Brothers was not a contract for an interest in real estate, but was merely a contract for an interest in the profits to be derived from the purchase and sale of the real estate, and, hence, does not fall within the provisions of our statute of frauds.

The authorities in this country are in conflict as to whether a parol agreement of joint adventure in the nature of a partnership to speculate in real estate falls within the provisions of a statute of frauds similar to the statute of frauds of this state. Some of the…