Yarborough v. Ward

This case was begun before a justice of the peace, without formal pleadings, by Yarborough against "Ward upon an account for the rent .of land; in which he recovered $217 and costs. "Ward appealed to the circuit court, where, upon a trial de novo, there was a verdict and judgment for Ward. Yarborough appealed to this court.

The evidence, brought up by the bill of exceptions, discloses : that Yarborough held some lands as administrator of his brother, which he had agreed to rent, for the year 1875, to one Deberry. He says that the contract was not completed, but that the terms of it had been…