Blankenship & Blake Co. v. Tillman

Opinion by

Davidson, J.

§ 296. Statute of frauds; promise to answer for debt, etc., of another held not to be within the statute. This suit was originally brought in the justice court of Dallas county by appellant against appellee for $187.75 alleged to be due the said company, in this wise: One A. J. Barnett, residing at Leadky, Tes., was in the habit of paying the employee of appellee, Tillman, for services in a mine at Leadky, and drawing on Tillman at Dallas, with the receipts pf the men so paid attached as vouchers, and the said drafts were paid by Tillman on presentation. In August, 1888,…