Effler v. Pyles

WELLS, Judge.

I. DEFENDANT’S APPEAL

Defendant Richard Pyles (hereinafter defendant) assigns error to the trial court for allowing testimony of oral communications concerning his promise to pay Shirley Pyles’ debt to plaintiff. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 22-1 (1986) provides:

No action shall be brought whereby to charge an executor, administrator or collector upon a special promise to answer damages out of his own estate or to charge any defendant upon a special promise to answer the debt, default or miscarriage of another person, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some…