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Cuzdey v. Landes
Washington Court of Appeals
198 Wash. App. 1033 (2017)
In Cuzdey versus Landes, we'll see whether the statute of frauds prevents an oral agreement for the sale of land from being enforced, even if a party paid the entire purchase price for the land.
In nineteen eighty three, Benny and Patricia Landes purchased a plot of land. Patrick Cuzdey, who was married to the Landeses' daughter, Carla, claimed that he made an oral agreement with the Landeses', in which the Landeses' agreed to purchase the property for Cuzdey.
Cuzdey orally agreed to repay the debt for the property through physical labor and construction work.
In nineteen eighty five, the Landeses has purchased a new mobile home for Cuzdey and Carla to live in on the property.
While Cuzdey and Carla lived on the property, Cuzdey helped build outbuildings on the land. However, the Landeses has paid for the buildings and paid all the property taxes for the land.
Cuzdey and Carla lived together on the property until nineteen ninety seven when the Landeses moved into their own mobile home on the property. In two thousand one, Patricia inherited Benny's interest in the property after Benny died. In May of twenty fourteen, Cuzdey and Carla got divorced, and Carla moved off the property. The following month, Patricia served Cuzdey with a notice to vacate the property.
Cuzdey filed suit to quiet title to the property based on the oral contract between Cuzdey and the Landes.
Cuzdey argued that he paid off the agreed upon purchase price through his physical labor.
The trial court dismissed Cuzdey's claim. The court held that Cuzdey's action to quiet title to the property was barred by the statute of frauds because an agreement for the sale of real property must be in writing.
Cuzdey appealed.
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Cuzdey v. Landes
Washington Court of Appeals
198 Wash. App. 1033 (2017)
In Cuzdey versus Landes, we'll see whether the statute of frauds prevents an oral agreement for the sale of land from being enforced, even if a party paid the entire purchase price for the land.
In nineteen eighty three, Benny and Patricia Landes purchased a plot of land. Patrick Cuzdey, who was married to the Landeses' daughter, Carla, claimed that he made an oral agreement with the Landeses', in which the Landeses' agreed to purchase the property for Cuzdey.
Cuzdey orally agreed to repay the debt for the property through physical labor and construction work.
In nineteen eighty five, the Landeses has purchased a new mobile home for Cuzdey and Carla to live in on the property.
While Cuzdey and Carla lived on the property, Cuzdey helped build outbuildings on the land. However, the Landeses has paid for the buildings and paid all the property taxes for the land.
Cuzdey and Carla lived together on the property until nineteen ninety seven when the Landeses moved into their own mobile home on the property. In two thousand one, Patricia inherited Benny's interest in the property after Benny died. In May of twenty fourteen, Cuzdey and Carla got divorced, and Carla moved off the property. The following month, Patricia served Cuzdey with a notice to vacate the property.
Cuzdey filed suit to quiet title to the property based on the oral contract between Cuzdey and the Landes.
Cuzdey argued that he paid off the agreed upon purchase price through his physical labor.
The trial court dismissed Cuzdey's claim. The court held that Cuzdey's action to quiet title to the property was barred by the statute of frauds because an agreement for the sale of real property must be in writing.
Cuzdey appealed.
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