Wright ex rel. Green v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of covenant against the appellee for breach of an indenture of apprenticeship, executed under the act of 1794, ch. 47, between Wright and Cockey, two justices of the peace, and Brown, by which the apprentice, Green, was bound to Brown for two years, the latter thereby covenanting to cause the said apprentice “to be taught to read, write, and cast accounts, and particularly to teach him the art or trade of a silversmith…
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of covenant against the appellee for breach of an indenture of apprenticeship, executed under the act of 1794, ch. 47, between Wright and Cockey, two justices of the peace, and Brown, by which the apprentice, Green, was bound to Brown for two years, the latter thereby covenanting to cause the said apprentice “to be taught to read, write, and cast accounts, and particularly to teach him the art or trade of a silversmith in all the branches thereof.” Issue was joined upon the plea of performance, and all errors in pleading were waived by…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
This is an action of covenant, instituted against the appellee to recover damages for the violation of his engagement to teach Wm. W. Green “the art or trade of a silversmith in all the branches thereof.”
The plea is performance and issue is taken thereon, with an agreement to waive all errors in pleading.
Proof was offered to show that Green had not been taught during his apprenticeship all the branches of the art or trade of a silversmith. The defendant then offered to prove that *40there were many branches in this trade; that it would have been impossible during, the continuance of this…
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