Entrekin v. Byrd

C. W. Byrd and Mrs. Olivia Sistrunk, administratrix of Henry Sistrunk, deceased, recovered a judgment in the court below against "W. H. Entrekin and Ed Johnson, Sr., for the price of sugar cane alleged to have been sold and delivered by Byrd and Sistrunk to Entrekin and Johnson, who have brought this case to this court.

One of the assignments of error challenges the refusal of the court below to direct a verdict for the appellants, the ground of the request therefor being’ that the contract sued on is void under section 4779, Code of 1906 (section 3329, Hemingway’s Code 1927).

According to the…