Walker v. Hill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for goods sold. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Colburn, J., the jury found for the plaintiffs, and the defendant alleged exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion,
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The plaintiffs’ right to recover is not disputed because the defendant is a married woman, or upon any other ground but that the contract sued on is a promise to answer for the debt of another, within the statute of frauds.
The evidence at the trial tended to show the following state of facts: In February, 1878, the defendant and one Warren entered into a written contract, by which Warren agreed to build a house and barn for the defendant, and to do all the carpenter’s work and furnish all the material, for a gross sum. During the following summer, Warren ordered of the plaintiffs, in his own…
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