Case Name: Janes v. Finny
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1793-03
Citations: 1 Root 549
Docket Number: 
Parties: Janes v. Finny.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 549–549

Head Matter:
Janes v. Finny.
An agreement respecting leasing and conveying real estate and not to be performed in one year, is within tbe statute, made to prevent frauds and perjuries.
ActioN of tbe case, declaring upon a parol agreement, tbat in consideration of certain services to be performed by tbe plaintiff, tbe defendant on tbe 27tb of February A. D. 17 agreed to let to tbe plaintiff a clothier’s mill and business, for tbe term of three years then next, and to rebuild said mill by the 1st of September then next, and to put it in good repair. Also to find dyeing stuff for said term, and to let tbe plaintiff have half an acre of land for a garden, to find him fire wood and tbe use of one-balf of tbe defendant’s dwelling-house for three years and to go into possession on tbe 1st of May next — which be bad not performed, etc.
The defendant plead the Statute against Frauds and Perjuries in bar. Demurrer.

Opinion:
Judgment — Tbat tbe plea is sufficient. This action is brought upon an agreement respecting lands and real property, and is not to be performed within one year.