Coffman v. Fleming

Plaintiff sued defendant in the Circuit Court of Laclede County, Missouri, alleging in his petition, the breach of an oral contract to deliver a certain number of hogs, of a certain weight, on June 1, 1919. Defendant plead the Statute of Frauds, alleging that the check given by plaintiff for $50 was not part payment for the hogs. Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $200 and costs. Defendant appealed from said judgment to the Springfield Court of Appeals. The latter affirmed the judgment, in an opinion by BRADLEY, J., in which the other judges concurred.

Judge BRADLEY'S opinion is published in…