Hoag v. Graves

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace. The declaration was oral and informal, and included all of the common counts in assumpsit, and especially upon an agreement in which defendant agreed to collect an insurance policy of $1,000 for half, and collected $500 through his agent, and neglected and refused to pay plaintiff his half. Also on a contract in which defendant agreed to collect, for half, a 1,000-dollar insurance policy, and an agent was employed and collected $500, and defendant settled with said agent and took a seal-skin sack, notes, etc., to plaintiff’s damage $300.