Meriweather's Adm'x v. Pickering

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

— Reversing.

This appeal questions the propriety of the trial court’s ruling and judgment, in sustaining the motion of defendant (here appellee) for a peremptory instruction, and thereupon dismissing petition of plaintiff (here appellant) with costs.

A statement of the facts of the case, so far as pertinent to the determination of the question here presented, is that Tom Meriweather, an.old colored man, living at Dawson Springs, Ky., and whose occupation was that of collecting and selling rags and old iron, had contracted with the appellee, William G-.…