Freeman v. Neyland

The appellee sued the appellant in the court below, upon an account for the hire of a negro for two years, money loaned, and medical services rendered to a third person, at the instance and request of the defendant below. The defendant pleaded in set-off, an account for labor done for the plaintiff. The cause was ‘continued at the Fall Term, 1856, and again at the Spring Term, 1857. At the Fall Term, 1857, the defendant not appearing, the cause proceeded to trial, ex parte.

The defendant made his motion for a new trial, the substance of which motion was, that he had entrusted the case to an…