Harwood v. Estate of Harwood
Supreme Court of Vermont
Book Account. Judgment to account was rendered, and auditors were appointed, who reported the facts as follows. The plaintiff’s account was for labor from April, 1840, to February, 1844. In the winter or spring of 1840 the plaintiff talked of going west, and his father Edmund Harwood, the deceased, wished him to remain at home and assist him in carrying on the farm, and offered the plaintiff such inducements, that he relinquished his purpose of going west and entered into…
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Book Account. Judgment to account was rendered, and auditors were appointed, who reported the facts as follows. The plaintiff’s account was for labor from April, 1840, to February, 1844. In the winter or spring of 1840 the plaintiff talked of going west, and his father Edmund Harwood, the deceased, wished him to remain at home and assist him in carrying on the farm, and offered the plaintiff such inducements, that he relinquished his purpose of going west and entered into the service of his father. It did not appear, that there was any stipulated sum agreed upon for his labor, but it…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kellogg, J.
This was a report of auditors, upon which the county court rendered judgment for the defendant. At the hearing before the auditors certain testimony was admitted, which the plaintiff claims should have been excluded, and for this cause he insists, the report should have been set aside. This objection is founded on the supposition, that the tendency of the testimony was to vary, or contradict, the terms of a deed executed by the plaintiff to E. Harwood, the deceased, in his life time. The plaintiff had labored for the deceased, who was his…
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