Leisman v. Otto
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 64 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM THE JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITED— 22 Maine R., 395 ; Blake vs. Paulin. 36 Maine R., 113 ; Moses vs. Martin. (1 Heath.) 3 Monroe, 45; Armstrong vs. Fora. 1 Rich. S. C., 223 ; Kinlock vs. Brown. 6 Rand., 516, 518 ; Cutter vs. Hinton. Brown on Statute of Frauds, 198. 1 Greenleaf, note to sec. 118. Statutes at Large, vol. 3, p. 799. CITED— Section 118, Civil Code. Section 4, 1 Stant.
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CASE 64 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM THE JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITED— 22 Maine R., 395 ; Blake vs. Paulin. 36 Maine R., 113 ; Moses vs. Martin. (1 Heath.) 3 Monroe, 45; Armstrong vs. Fora. 1 Rich. S. C., 223 ; Kinlock vs. Brown. 6 Rand., 516, 518 ; Cutter vs. Hinton. Brown on Statute of Frauds, 198. 1 Greenleaf, note to sec. 118. Statutes at Large, vol. 3, p. 799. CITED— Section 118, Civil Code. Section 4, 1 Stant. Rev. Stat.,p. 264. 13 B. Mon., 357; Jones vs. Walker. 15 B. Mon., 445-6; Smith vs. Tab. MSS. Op., June, 1858; Taylor vs. Taylor. 3 Monroe, 45; Armstrong vs. Flora. 1…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion op the court:
This is an appeal from a judgment for eight hundred and seventy dollars, rendered on an account for the price of eighty barrels of beer sold by the appellee, at Louisville, Kentucky, to Theodore Muhling, of Nashville, Tennessee, on the credit of the appellants, and charged to them on the appellee’s day-book.
The appellants, by their counsel, insist that their promise was only a collateral undertaking to pay the subsisting debt of Muhling; and therefore, there being no written evidence of it, this action cannot be maintained.
But not concurring…
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