Eskridge v. Glover
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an action of assumpsit, prosecuted in Greene County Court, by Burclet Eskridge, again,st Williamson Glover; and was brought to recover of the defendant, damages, for the non-performance of promises by the defendant, whereby, in exchange of horses, the defendant undertook to pay to the plaintiff the sum of fifty-five dollars.
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This was an action of assumpsit, prosecuted in Greene County Court, by Burclet Eskridge, again,st Williamson Glover; and was brought to recover of the defendant, damages, for the non-performance of promises by the defendant, whereby, in exchange of horses, the defendant undertook to pay to the plaintiff the sum of fifty-five dollars. The declaration contained several counts, one of which specially set forth, that the plaintiff, at the instance and request of the defendant, did exchange a certain mare, held and owned by the plaintiff, for for a horse, then and there the property of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSaffold, J.
The present plaintiff brought as-sumpsit, in Greene County Court, to recover fifty dollars, which he alleged to be due him, from Glover, as the boot, or difference, in a contract of exchange of horses.
There, a verdict was found for the plaintiff. On that trial, Glover took a bill of exceptions to the opinion of the Court, and prosecuted a writ of error to the Circut Court, where the former judgment was reversed, for supposed error, in the opinion of the County Court, as shewn by the bill of exceptions.— From the decision of the Circuit Court, Eskridge prosecutes the present writ of error, and…
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