Owen v. White
Supreme Court of Alabama
In error to Franklin Circuit Court. This was a case in which the plaintiff below had furnished articles to a son, a minor, a pupil at a literary institution, and sought to charge the father. The case was tried before a magistrate, who gave judgment for the defendant. The case being removed to the Circuit Court, plaintiff obtained a verdict, whence it was removed to this Court by writ of error.
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In error to Franklin Circuit Court. This was a case in which the plaintiff below had furnished articles to a son, a minor, a pupil at a literary institution, and sought to charge the father. The case was tried before a magistrate, who gave judgment for the defendant. The case being removed to the Circuit Court, plaintiff obtained a verdict, whence it was removed to this Court by writ of error. The bill of exceptions stated — that- on the trial of the cause, it was proved by the defendant in error, that the articles sued for were furnished to the son of the plaintiff in error, a youth about…
1Opinion of the Court
COLLIER J.
This cause was commenced by summons, at the suit of the defendant in error, before a justice of the peace of Franklin county; where a judgment being rendered against him, he appealed to the Circuit Court of that county; and the *437case being submitted to a jury, there was a verdict and judgment against the plaintiff in error.
On the trial, a bill of exceptions was sealed by the Judge who presided, as follows: “it was proved by the plaintiff, that the articles sued for, were furnished to the son of the defendant, a youth about eighteen years of age, who was a pupil in a college in the…
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