Ellison v. Beannabia

The opinion of the court was delivered by

MoAtee, J.:

The petition in this case was filed upon the 26th day of September, 1894. An amended petition was thereafter filed upon the 14th day of November, 1894, which alleged that the plaintiff, defendant in error here, was a Mexican by birth, over sixty-five years of age, illiterate, being unable to either read, write, speak or understand the English language; that for a series of years immediately preceding the 3d day of September, 1894, he was in the employment of the defendant, Robert R. Ellison, doing daily labor; that Ellison is an American by…