Gordon v. Kennedy
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. THIS was a writ of error to the Common Pleas of Phi- . ladelphia county, upon which the general errors were assigned. . ° The action was brought to March term 1806, against Gordon the plaintiff in error, and at the trial a verdict was found for Kennedy, and the damages assessed generally at twelve hundred dollars. _ The declaration contained seven counts.
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IN ERROR. THIS was a writ of error to the Common Pleas of Phi- . ladelphia county, upon which the general errors were assigned. . ° The action was brought to March term 1806, against Gordon the plaintiff in error, and at the trial a verdict was found for Kennedy, and the damages assessed generally at twelve hundred dollars. _ The declaration contained seven counts. The last five were upon an indebitatus assumpsit for work and labour, a quantum valebant for the same, money laid out and expended, money lent and advanced, and money had and received. The first count recited, that whereas on or…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
delivered judgment.
The error assigned in this case appears on the face of the *292declaration. There are seven counts, to only one of which, (the second) an objection is made. In this count it is stated that on the 8th July 1805, the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, had undertaken and did superintend the defendant’s brewery, and did instruct the defendant’s son in the art of brewing, in consideration whereof the defendant promised to pay him the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, and to provide for the said plaintiff a convenient lodging room with bed, bedding and…
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