Hicks v. Tate

These two cases were consolidated for trial in the lower court and were also consolidated for argument and submission in this court. The same issues are involved in both.

The plaintiff in one of the suits, Norman F. Hicks, was a sub-contractor of Henning-Miller Lumber Co., Inc., which had entered into a verbal contract with the defendant, Richard C. Tate, to erect a dwelling on a lot of ground in Margaret Place Addition to the city of Lake Charles. The contract which was agreed on sometime prior to October 1, 1932, was for $6,700, and being verbal, obviously it could not be and never was…