Towns v. Nims
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit. The declaration alleged, that the defendant hired himself to the plaintiff to labor at the blacksmith business for one year, from the 1st April, 1828, for $110, to be paid at the expiration of the year ; that he began to labor under the contract on the 2d April, 1828, and continued in the employment of the plaintiff until the 2d,May, in the same year, when, although requested to remain in the same employment, he refused so to do, but wholly left the same, whereby…
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Assumpsit. The declaration alleged, that the defendant hired himself to the plaintiff to labor at the blacksmith business for one year, from the 1st April, 1828, for $110, to be paid at the expiration of the year ; that he began to labor under the contract on the 2d April, 1828, and continued in the employment of the plaintiff until the 2d,May, in the same year, when, although requested to remain in the same employment, he refused so to do, but wholly left the same, whereby the plaintiff was put to great trouble and expense in luring another. The defendant pleaded in bar, that he, the said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Richardson, C. J.
The plaintiff brings this action against the defendant, upon a special contract of the latter to labor for the former, a year, at a stipulated price, *261and assigns as a breach of the contract, that after laboring for one month, the defendant refused to complete the service. The defendant pleads in bar, that he brought an action against the plaintiff for that month’s labor ; that the plaintiff set up as a defence this very contract ; that a jury passed upon it and found in favor of this defendant ; and that judgment was rendered upon the…
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- Kent v. KentMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807
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