Texas Supreme Court June 15, 1883, Case No. 3941 (Muller v. Riviere)

Walker, P. J. Com. App.—

The charge of the court and the ruling upon the admissibility of evidence present the question "whether such a contract, verbally made, as that which the defendant’s answer alleges was made with him by the plaintiff for the payment of the debt of the plaintiff’s deceased husband, was or not. within the statute of frauds.