Bowman v. Conn

The complaint alleges that Bowman tracted with Conn for whatever broom-corn should be .raised in 1853 on twenty-five acres of land. The crop was to he delivered in merchantable condition at Madison, m the quantity of a tun every two weeks, at the rate of 60 dollars per tun, payable upon delivery.

-The breach assigned is a failure to deliver.

Conn' answered in separate paragraphs, the one denying generally the undertaking, the other setting up the Statute of Frauds — that there was no memorandum in writing signed by the contracting parties, or by their authority, and no earnest given to bind the…