Copse v. Eddins

The plaintiff sues for the value of services rendered by him, as a laborer and overseer, on the plantation of Benjamin Hashberger, since deceased, for the whole time intervening between the years 1840 and 1857.

The defence was a general denial.

Judgment being rendered in the District Court in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant, — the administrator of the estate of B. Hashberger, deceased, — took an appeal, and filed, in this court, the plea of one and throe years’ prescription.

The evidence justifies the estimate of the plaintiff's services as fixed by the Judge. The only remaining question…