Lee v. Alexander

Judge Beech,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The first countin the plaintiff’s amended declaration avers, “that the defendants, on the 3d January, 1840, executed and delivered to the plaintiff their - certain •writing obligatory, signed -with their hands, and now here shown, the date thereof being destroyed and mutilated without the knowledge, privity or consent of the plaintiff, and which is in substance as follows:

“Louisville, 3d January, 1841.

“We or either of us, promise to pay Wilford Lee seven hundred and fifty dollars, for the hire of six negro boys, to-wit: Basel, Charles, Ross,…