Newman v. Reagan

Hawkins, Justice.

This case comes before the court upon a transcript of the record from the county of Dougherty. The defendant in error brought his action in the superior court to recover from the defendant the sum of four hundred and twenty-five dollars upon a contract for services as clerk for one year, commencing the fifteenth day of August, 1877, to the fifteenth day of August, 1878. The defendant was discharged before the expiration of the time, and after August, 1878, brought suit to recover the full amount under his contract. To this action the defendant, Newman, pleaded the general…