Patten v. Robbs

'This .suit was .commenced in the magistrate’s court by appellee against appellant to recover the value of a suit of clothes charged to appellant by direction of appellant’s son-in-law, Cecil Varne, who made the purchase.

Appellant denied that he authorized the purchase of the suit, and pleaded the statute of frauds. Upon the trial of the cause in the magistrate’s court and in the circuit court, where the case was carried on appeal, judgment was rendered against appellant in favor of appellee for $31. An appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court from the circuit court’s judgment. .

Appellee…