Jamerson v. . Logan’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably CCT Equipment Co. v. Hertz Corporation (1962), 7 N.C. App. 590 - Yaggy v. BVD COMPANY (1970)
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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“The complaint is broad enough, however, to support a recovery on implied assumpsit to pay the plaintiff the reasonable worth of her services or quantum meruit as expressed in some of the cases, and there is evidence to warrant the submission of the case to the jury on this theory. Indeed, it may be doubted whether the complaint or the evidence shows more than a cause of action for the reasonable worth of plaintiffs services. “Where the plaintiff alleged a contract to pay for services performed, and, upon the trial, failed to prove a special contract, but did prove the performance of the services and their value: Held, that he was entitled to recover upon quantum meruit without amending the complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is settled by numerous decisions that if the contract be denied . . . parol evidence is inadmissible to show the existence or terms of the agreement. (Citations omitted.) “Where the plaintiff sues upon a contract, the performance of which he seeks to enforce specifically in equity, ... he must establish the contract by legal evidence, and if it is required by the statute to be in writing, then by the writing itself, for that is the only admissible proof.” (Citations omitted.) Jamerson v. Logan, 228 N.C. 540, 543 , 46 S.E. 2d 561, 563 (1948).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Severe v. Penny“A contract which the law requires to be in writing can be proved only by the writing itself, not as the best , but as the only admissible evidence of its existence .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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