Browning v. Hight

The appellee sued the appellants for the reasonable value of work and labor done for them at their request, in preparing and dressing seventy-seven thousand white oak staves.”

The answer of the appellants consisted of a general denial, .and a special plea that the plaintiff, did the work under a .special agreement to accept in full compensation therefor the *258shavings and blocks cut from the staves, commonly known as “ offals,” and that the plaintiff received said offals.

The errors insisted upon consist in the giving of instructions, and the exclusion of certain testimony.

In its second…