Cranmer v. Graham

Cranmer declared against Graham in assumpsit. The first count is for 12 months’ wages, as a labourer, at 9 dollars and 25 cents per month, amounting to 111 dollars. The second count is a general indebitatus assumpsit for work and labour. Pleas, non-assumpsit, and accord and satisfaction. After two verdicts in favour of the plaintiff, and two new trials, the case came before the Court on a demurrer to evidence. Two witnesses were sworn. The evidence of the first was, that in January, 1822, he saw the plaintiff at work at the defendant’s, and the defendant told the witness that he was to give…