Goldstein v. McNeil

Plaintiff, seller, recovered damages for breach of an oral contract of sale of 14 secondhand automobiles. The sole contention of the appellants—defendants— is that the trial court erred in holding them estopped from asserting the statute of frauds, to wit, section 1973a Code of Civil Procedure, reading in part: “1. A contract to sell or a sale of any goods or choses in action of the value of five hundred dollars or upwards shall not be enforceable by action unless the buyer shall accept part of the goods or choses in action so contracted to be sold or sold, and actually receive the same, or…