William Kiernan and Christine Pfeiffer v. Wil — Christen, J…

Summary

Justice Christen, joined by Justice Fabe, dissented from the court's expansion of the promissory-estoppel and part-performance exceptions to the statute of frauds. She would have held that the alleged oral real-estate agreement was too indefinite and ambiguous to support specific performance or promissory estoppel, while concluding that factual disputes required trial of the unjust-enrichment claim. The dissent would therefore affirm summary judgment on the contract-based claims but reverse it on unjust enrichment.