Dickens v. Quincy College Corp.

This is an appeal by plaintiff Randy Dickens from an order of the circuit court of Adams County dismissing his complaint against defendant Quincy College Corporation. Plaintiff’s complaint sought damages for breach of an employment contract as football coach.

On appeal, plaintiff raises two issues: (1) whether the trial court misapplied section 1 of the Frauds Act, commonly known as the statute of frauds (111. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 59, par. 1), to the oral extension of the parties’ written contract because the extension was supported and ratified by sufficient memoranda; and (2) whether, as a…