Weber & Co. v. Bishop

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 51
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 204

Syllabus

<p>Statute of frauds — Inducing advantage to promisor.</p> <p>The delivery of goods held by plaintiff on storage which were consigned as the property of J. to W., who had become the assignee by sheriff’s sale of J.’s property, presents such advantage to W. as invokes the rule of law that wherever the main purpose of the promisor is not to answer for the debt of another but to subserve some purpose of his own, his promise to pay a debt of that other is not within the statute.</p>