Lee v. Boutwell

Roberts, Chief Justice.

Boutwell recovered a judgment against Lee in the court below, and the error complained of was the refusal of the court to give a charge to the jury of the statute of limitations of two years as applicable to the cause of action set up in the amended petition of plaintiff.

The original petition stated that the plaintiff and defendant had entered into a verbal contract for the plaintiff to take charge of a stock of horses, and take care of them for three years, beginning on tbe first day of April, 1872, for which he was to receive every fourth colt of the increase of said…