Section 21 Additional Use of Doctrine to Overcome Bar of Statute of Frauds

• Library: Emp-Emp Law 2000

Actions on oral contracts of employment “not to be performed within one year from the making thereof” will be barred by the Missouri statute of frauds, § 432.010, RSMo 1994, unless promissory estoppel will serve as a defense to the statute’s application. In Morsinkhoff v. De Luxe Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co., 344 S.W.2d 639, 644 (Mo. App. W.D. 1961), the plaintiff brought an action over the defendant’s refusal to allow him to start work under oral contract for an indefinite period. The appellate court...