Nichols v. Haynes
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: No. 286 to January Term 1874. On the 3d of October 1870, Aaron J. Haynes brought an action of assumpsit against A. T. Nichols and A. C. Moore, partners, &c. The defendants being owners of timber land in North Carolina and a saw-mill in Virginia, in the year 1869, employed the plaintiff to go to the timber tract and superintend the cutting and hauling logs, rafting them, &c. The plaintiff’s wages were to be $50 per month.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county: No. 286 to January Term 1874. On the 3d of October 1870, Aaron J. Haynes brought an action of assumpsit against A. T. Nichols and A. C. Moore, partners, &c. The defendants being owners of timber land in North Carolina and a saw-mill in Virginia, in the year 1869, employed the plaintiff to go to the timber tract and superintend the cutting and hauling logs, rafting them, &c. The plaintiff’s wages were to be $50 per month. His claim was for wages for ten months ; and also for the services of his wife as cook for the hands; the claim on this…
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment was entered in the Supreme Court, March 29th 1875,
2Per curiam
Questions in relation to books of entry as evidence, since the Act of 1869, making the parties witnesses, stand upon a different footing from that on which they stood before. Then, the book itself was the evidence, and the oath of the party was merely supplementary. Now, the party himself is a competent witness, and may prove his own claim as a stranger would have done before the Act of 1869. That the facts contained in the book, either of charge or discharge, of cash or goods, or whatever else is in his personal knowledge, might be…
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