Rose v. Buscher
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the appellee against the appellant.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the appellee against the appellant. The plaintiff testified that in the spring of 1887 he agreed to work for the defendant on his farm for the sum of twenty dollars and thirty dollars per month, payable alternately, and continued so to work until October, 1888, the defendant agreeing to deposit the wages so earned in bank for the plaintiff; that in September, 1887, he received from Europe the sum of $936, which he handed to defendant to deposit in the savings bank for him, and that of said sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtFowler, J.
The plaintiff sued the defendant in assumpsit on the common counts in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. To this action the defendant pleaded payment and set-off, and filed with the latter a bill of particulars. The plaintiff pleaded limitations to defendant’s plea of set-off, and upon the suggestion of the latter the case was thereupon removed to the Superior Court of Baltimore City, where, after several amendments of the defendant’s pleadings, the case was finally tried before a jury on the common counts, to which *231there was a general issue plea, a special plea of payment as. to the…
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