Hughes v. Lawson

Harrison, J.:

Lawson sued Hughes before a justice of the peace, upon his promise to pay the debt of one Hudson for $80. The plaintiff recovered judgment before the justice, and tbe defendant appealed to the Circuit Court, and in the Circuit Court the plaintiff again obtained a verdict and judgment. The defendant then appealed to this court.

The evidence was, that Hudson owed the plaintiff $80 for the ' labor of his son in his crop, and being threatened by the plaintiff with a suit, they, at his suggestion, went to the defendant, whose land Hudson bad cultivated, to get him to settle-the debt.…