Adams v. Watkins

This is an action of assumpsit commenced in justice’s court, and, after a trial there, *433appealed to the circuit, where, on a trial before a jury, the plaintiffs had verdict and judgment.

The declaration alleges substantially that the plaintiffs were the owners of certain lands and premises in the declaration described, and that the defendant, in consideration that they would sell and convey to him the said premises, then and there undertook, promised, and agreed with the plaintiffs, among other things, to harvest and thresh one-third of the wheat then standing and growing upon 28 acres of said…