Taylor v. . Lee

Appellant’s chief exception, as stressed on tbe argument and in bis brief, is tbe one addressed to tbe refusal of tbe court to' grant bis motion for judgment as of nonsuit, made first at tbe close of plaintiffs’ evidence and renewed at tbe close of all tbe evidence, and based upon tbe ground that appellant’s special promise to plaintiff, which was not in writing, was to answer for tbe debt, default or miscarriage of bis codefendant Parker, and was therefore void under tbe statute of frauds. O. S., 987.

It was in evidence that tbe defendants, Lee and Parker, landlord and tenant respectively,…