Hill v. Sibley

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant on an open account in the statutory form, for the sum of $704 35, with a bill of particulars annexed. The defendant filed a plea to the plaintiff’s action, in which he alleged “ that the plaintiff was an overseer on the plantation of defendant for the year 1872, under a special contract to furnish sixty hands, and make for defendant plenty of corn and three hundred bales of cotton, and in consideration thereof, was to receive $20 00 to the hand, but said plaintiff utterly neglected his duty as such…