Ream v. Watkins

The plaintiff, who is a minor, commenced this suit by his next friend before a justice of the peace. In the statement *517filed with the justice, the plaintiff claimed a balance of twenty-two dollars and five cents for three months and fourteen days’ work, at the rate of one hundred dollars per year, from the 23d of September, 1855, until the 6th January, 1856, when lie was wrongfully discharged by the defendant; also sixty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents as damages for breach of a contract by which the defendant had engaged the plaintiff to work for him one year commencing September 23d,…