Huffine v. McCampbell
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM KNOX. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Knox. County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. — Hon. Chas. Hays Brown, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Malone, Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
While several questions are discussed in the briefs of ■ counsel and in the opinion of the court of civil appeals, the determinative question here is whether a certain compromise agreement is enforceable under the statute of frauds,, and, more particularly, the effect of a deposition voluntarily given by a litigant, and its possible use as a memorandum to satisfy the fourth section of the statute of frauds.
*50This section of the statute of frauds, as embodied in Acts 1801, chapter 25, section 1 (Shannon’s Code, section 3142), contains…
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