Coleman v. Simpson

Judge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an action of assumpsit for work and labor. It seems that Polly Coleman, the plaintiff, was placed by her father, when a small girl, with the defendant, Simpson, at whose house she lived until she was twenty four or five years of age, when she was driven away ; that-she labored, ever since she was large enough, faithfully and continually, in the defendant’s service, spinning, weaving, washing, cooking, cutting wood, and even carrying wood from the forest; that she was clothed out of the same materials as those worn by the defendant’s…