Hill & Bergen v. Harris
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 44 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Civil Code, sec. 53. 2 Bibb, 215 ; Langford vs. Owsley. Sedgwick on Damages, p. 108. 1 Duvall, 262; Whittaker vs. Sandifer. 6 Dana, 352; Chamberton vs. McCallister. CITED— 15 Mess, W., 117 ; Alder vs. Keighley. Sedgwick on Damages, p. 212. Littell, S. C.; Caldwell vs. Reed. 6 Dana, 352 ; Chamberton vs. McCallister. 14 Vermont, 311; 1 Denio, 317. Chitty on Contracts, 684; 15 Mo., 175.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion oe the court:
On the 23d of May, 1868, D. B. Willis and the appellants, Elba Hill and W. J. Bergen, trustees of the Forest. Hill school district, in Madison county, Kentucky, employed the appellee, Lewis C. Harris, to teach a school for four months, at the price of forty-five dollars a month. The appellee forthwith commenced teaching in the school-house of that district. After teaching about three weeks, faithfully and satisfactorily, according to the testimony, the appellants alone — their co-trustee, Willis, dissenting — gave him the following notice :
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