Connor v. Stewart

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 381
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 376

Syllabus

<p>Statute of frauds — Promise to pay the debt of another — Building contract — Subcontractor—Material men.</p> <p>Where building contractors sublet a portion of the contract to a subcontractor, and the latter is supplied with material by a material man, under an oral promise by the contractors that if the subcontractor failed to pay the material man, they, the contractors, would'take the price out of whatever they might owe to the subcontractor, and pay it over to the material man, the promise is to pay the debt of another, and being oral is not enforceable under the statute of frauds.</p>