Bondurant v. Tally's Trustee

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

*203The appellant, C. T. Bondurant, having- contracted to perform certain constructive levee work in the Reel Foot district in Fulton county, this state, sublet a part of the work to one Ben Tally who owned an outfit consisting- of mules, implements and machinery required for doing-such work. But as Tally was short of money, appellant agreed and undertook to advance him from 'time to time during- the progress of the levee work to he done by the latter, money, amounting- in the aggregate to $4,000.00, with which to pay his hands and provide them and his…