Roy v. Flin
Roy v. Flin
Opinion of the Court
Roy & Titcomb, an incorporated company, was surety upon a contractor’s bond given by one James Yandevort in favor of the county of Santa Cruz to insure the faithful performance by Yandevort of a contract, by the terms of which Yandevort was obligated to build a courthouse for said county, according to plans and specifications made part thereof, on or before a certain date therein speci
Appellant assigns as error the ruling of the court in denying its motion for judgment at the conclusion of appellee’s case. The merit of this assignment, if any there be, cannot be considered, for the reason that the ruling complained of was not presented to the trial court for review in the motion for a new trial. Tietjen v. Snead, 3 Ariz. 195, 24 Pac. 324.
The second and remaining assignment of error is that the evidence does not support the findings or judgment. The assignment is defective in not specifying in what particular or particulars the evidence fails to support the findings or judgment. It is argued in the brief of appellant that the findings are not sustained by the evidence in the particular that it shows that the agreement on the part of the appellant, if any there was, to pay the sum due Flin from Yandevort at the time appellant undertook to complete the contract, was not in writing, and hence not enforceable under the statute of frauds; it being an agreement to answer for the debt of another. An examination of the record shows that the evidence tends to establish that appellant, at the time of its verbal agreement with Flin to complete the stone work, assumed the payment of the amount due from Yandevort as an inducement and part consideration for the resumption of the work by Flin and the carrying out of the full terms of his contract with Yandevort, which he was under no legal obligation to do. The oral promise on the part of appellant to pay the debt due Flin from Yandevo'rt was therefore an independent agreement and was founded on a good consideration. “The promise of one person, though in form to answer for the debt of another, if founded upon a new and sufficient consideration, moving from the creditor and promisee to the promisor, and beneficial to the latter, is not within the statute of frauds, and need not be
A review of the evidence fails to disclose such failure of proof to sustain any of the material findings of the court as requires the reversal of the judgment.
The judgment is therefore affirmed.
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- ROY & TITCOMB, and v. JULIUS FLIN, and
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- 1. Appeal and Error — Motion for Judgment — Not Considered on Appeal Unless Presented to Trial Court in Motion for New Trial. : — An assignment of error that the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion for judgment at the conclusion of appellee’s ease, cannot be considered on appeal where the ruling complained of was not presented to the trial court for review in the motion for a new trial. 2. Appeal and Error — Assignment of Error — Defective.—An assignment of error that the evidence does not support the findings or judgment, is defective in not specifying in what particular or particulars the evidence fails to support the findings or judgment. 3. Statute of EraudS' — Contract—Promise to Pay Debt of Another —Independent Agreement. — Where a contractor for whom plaintiffs were sureties abandoned his contract, thereby releasing plaintiff, a subcontractor, from carrying out his contract, and defendants, in order to induce plaintiff to complete the same, orally promised to assume the payment of the amount due from the contractor to plaintiff, such promise by defendant was based on an independent agreement, founded on a good consideration moving from plaintiff, and was not within the statute of frauds.