Hine v. Vilter

The judgment and the subsequent order, which made the judgment absolute, followed the court’s order granting the sellers’ motion for summary judgment to enforce a contract for the sale of land.

On this appeal the defendant, the purchaser of the land, asserts for the first time that no contract was entered into between the parties because the requirements of sec. 706.02(1), Stats., 1 the statute of frauds, were not complied with. Whatever the merits of defendant’s argument may be, we are first confronted with the question of whether the defense of the statute of frauds can be raised for the…