Foley Whitehill v. Texas Co.

(after stating the facts as ’ ahoye).

1. The appellants in their brief and in their argument urge that the petition presents a cause of action founded on an oral contract, and not upon a written contract, of employment covering a period of “at least two years” after its date, and of which oral contract the alleged letter is a sufficient “memorandum thereof in writing” to charge the appellee within the statute of frauds in this state. In this view, then, the principal question is that of whether or not the alleged letter is a sufficient “memorandum in writing” of the previously made oral…