Parker v. Clayton

— The question in this case is presented by a motion in arrest of judgment. The complaint, omitting the title and prayer for judgment, is as follows :

“The plaintiff complains of the defendant, and says the defendant is indebted to him, in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, for keeping the defendant’s horse, feeding and caring for the same, from the 17th day of May, 1871, to the 17th day of October, 1872, a period of seventeen months, and plaintiff says the keeping and feeding and caring for said horse was of the value of three dollars per week.”

The appellant contends that the complaint…