Sayre v. Durwood
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKjnstby. This action was brought by Alexander Durwood, against William Sayre and Henry Eullilove, “ to recover the sum of $800,” as the complaint alleged, “ upon a contract with them for his services, to be rendered as clerk, during the season of 1854-5, from about tbe 20th November in the year 1854, to about the 1st June in the year 1855, in the grocery-store of the defendants in the city of Mobile, — which…
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Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKjnstby. This action was brought by Alexander Durwood, against William Sayre and Henry Eullilove, “ to recover the sum of $800,” as the complaint alleged, “ upon a contract with them for his services, to be rendered as clerk, during the season of 1854-5, from about tbe 20th November in the year 1854, to about the 1st June in the year 1855, in the grocery-store of the defendants in the city of Mobile, — which services the plaintiff was ready and willing during all that time to render, and duly offered to render;” “also, the…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, C. J.
The evidence conduced to show, that the contract on which the plaintiff relied for a recovery, was made in the summer of 1854. The question propounded by the defendant to the witness Roberts, called upon him to state, whether, at a time subsequent to the making of the contract, the defendant “ had in his employment sufficient to do the business of the house.” The matter thus called for is, to say the least of it, prima facie, irrelevant. Its relevancy was not shown, nor offered to be shown. There was no error in sustaining the objection to the question, a part of which called for this…
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