Merrill v. Wilson

This cause originated before a justice of the peace, where Wilson, the plaintiff below, had judgment, from which Merrill appealed. Trial by the Court, finding for the plaintiff, motion for a new trial overruled, and judgment.

The record contains all the evidence, from which it appears that a subscription had been taken for the purpose of building a house for Mrs. Olive, a widow, whose husband had been killed on the Madison and Indianapolis railroad; that Merrill was the active man in collecting the subscription, and in disbursing it in the erection of the house. On the 15th of May, 1848, he…