Case ID: sw2d_51/html/1117-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GRAVES, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COLONIAL BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION v. PYRAMID ASBESTOS & ROOFING CO.
    No. 9731.
    Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Galveston.
    May 13, 1932.
    Rehearing Denied June 2, 1932.
    Bryan & Bryan, of Houston, for appellant.
    Allen, Helm, Jacobs & Settegast, of Houston, for appellee.
   GRAVES, J.

Under the disposition made of this appeal upon original hearing, no opinion was required of this court; in deference, however, to the subsequent motion of the able counsel for appellant, who have so painstakingly briefed and argued the cause here, this statement of the grounds of the affirmance of the judgment is made:

As this court conceived the rationale of appellant’s attack upon the trial court’s judgment, it was in final analysis predicated upon the position that it was protected from liability for payment for the roof involved by the terms of our statute of frauds, whereas this court agreed with the finding of the trial court that, under the facts and circumstances presented, appellant’s obligation to pay the debt amounted to an original undertaking of its own; hence was not within the statute of frauds. It undisputedly appears that the ap-pellee would not accept the contractor’s order for the roof until the appellant had agreed to gay for it; wherefore it looked solely to the appellant and not to the contractor.

In view of the facts, this conclusion determines the merits of the appeal adversely to appellant, and it neither was nor is now deemed necessary for this court to make findings of fact and law upon the various assignments presented.

Appellant’s motion to file conclusions of law and fact has accordingly been overruled.

Overruled.