Page v. Sadler

The appellant, W. E. Page, sued the appellee, B. 0. Sadler, in the circuit court of Yazoo county to recover on the written promise of the latter to pay the debt of a third person. At the conclusion of appellant’s testimony on motion of the appellee the same was excluded and a verdict directed for appellee, from which appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The questions involved arose out of the following facts: Lefler was indebted to Johnson in the sum of four hundred twenty-one dollars and twenty-six cents and for the purpose of paying the same drew a draft for that amount in favor of Johnson on…