Property Sales, Inc. v. Irvington Ice Cream & Frozen Arts, Inc.

The question involved in this case is whether Hetzel v. Lyon, 87 Neb. 261, 126 N. W. 997 (1910), should be overruled. In the above case this court held that a contract in writing executed pursuant to the statute of frauds, now section 36-107, R. R. S. 1943, between a landowner and broker for the sale of the land of the former, which by its terms limits the time for its continuance, may be extended by parol after the contract has been terminated, so as to extend the time of the existence of the broker’s authority to sell under the terms of the written contract. The district court followed the…