Haygood v. Boney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Me. Justice Gaey.

The plaintiff sued the defendant in a trial justice’s court to recover the sum of sixty-six and 95-100 dollars, the balance alleged to be due for services as a farm laborer during the year 1893. The defendant answered, setting up: first, a denial of any indebtedness to the plaintiff; second, that plaintiff failed to perform his contract to labor for and faithfully serve the defendant, and caused him great loss by his negligence; and third, by way of counter-claim, the damages alleged to have been sustained to the amount of $125, by…