Evans v. Richardson

Beasley, Judge.

Evans, defendant below with Sanders, appeals the grant of summary judgment to plaintiff Richardson.

Richardson sued defendants for $3,500 rent for farmland owned by him for the crop year 1986. The agreement was oral.

Defendant Evans filed for bankruptcy in July 1986, but did not list Richardson as a creditor. After the complaint was filed in the present case in January 1987, Evans sought unsuccessfully to reopen his bankruptcy proceeding to add Richardson.

Evans’ answer in this case raised the affirmative defenses of the Statute of Frauds, contending that the contract was one…