Legal Opinion
Stearns v. Emery-Waterhouse Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided September 4, 1991PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Justice.
Emery-Waterhouse Co. appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, IApez, J.) awarding damages to Timothy B. Steams for breach of an oral contract to employ Steams for a definite term greater than one year. The court held Emery-Waterhouse estopped to assert its defense under the statute of frauds, 33 M.R.S.A. § 51(5)(1988), by the extent of Stearns’s detrimental reliance on the oral contract. Because Stearns did not produce clear and convincing evidence of fraud on the part of his employer, we hold that enforcement of the oral contract was barred by the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Hudson v. Venture Industries, Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1979
- McIntosh v. MurphyHawaii Supreme Court · 1970
- Pursell v. Wolverine-Pentronix, IncMichigan Court of Appeals · 1973
- Chapman v. BomannSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
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