Kinnear v. Jones

This was a suit brought'by Kinnear against Jones before Mann Butler, Esq., a justice of the peace, for work and labor done by Kinnear as a bricklayer in the employment of said Jones on a brick building situated in the city of St. Louis, and owned by J. B. Ghio. The account was for twelve and a half days’ work, at $2 50 per day, amounting to $31 25.

Kinnear filed his account, describing the building, and stating the work and price done by him for Jones, with the clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Louis county, on the 12th of July, 1853, and gave notice on the 9th of July, 1853, to Jno. B. Ghio,…