Tate v. Shackelford's Adm'r

William A. Shackelford sued the plaintiff in error before a justice of the peace, and in the warrant he is described, u administrator, in right of his wife, of the estate of George W. Hail, late of Cherokee county, deceased.”

The cause of action endorsed on the warrant, as also that declared upon in the Circuit Court, to which the case was taken by appeal, is a special contract, made between Shackelford and Mrs. Tate, for the services of a slave, belonging to Hail’s estate, in the erection of a boat, for which service she was to pay the plaintiff below the sum of $52 50. The sum of two dollars…