Chalmers v. Stewart

The declaration counts on a certain subscription paper, signed by the plaintiff in error and others, the object of which was the employment of the defendant in error to keep a common school in district No. 15, etc., and by which the plaintiff agreed to pay the defendant two dollars per scholar for teaching two scholars for sixty days. The declaration avers that the defendant in error was ready and willing to teach, etc., of which the plaintiff in error had notice, and the refusal of the plaintiff in error to pay, etc.

A plea of the general issue was filed, the cause submitted to the jury, a…