Coleman v. Roberts

Action of assumpsit, for raising and talcing care of the child of the plaintiff. This cause was tried in the county of Jefferson, at the last ’ term of the Circuit Court. Roberts, the plaintiff below, had a verdict, and the cause is brought here by writ of' error. The evidence is preserved by a bill of exception, as follows: It was proved, on the part of the plaintiff, that the defendant’s infant daughter, before it could walk, at the age of eleven months, after the death of the mother, was, by the defendant, put at the house and in the care of the witness, her uncle.. After the child had…