Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors May 15, 1845 (Shindler v. Houston)

By the Court, Jewett, J.

This action was brought to recover the price of the lumber in question, as for lumber sold and delivered. It is resisted principally on the ground that the contract is within the statute, (2 R. S. 136, § 3,) by which it is enacted, “ Every contract for the sale of any goods, chattels or things in action, for the price of fifty dollars or more, shall be void unless, 1.