Hillier v. Eldred

This action was brought in justice’s court to recover the sum of $45, balance due on a contract for building a barn upon defendant’s farm. Plaintiff had judgment for the amount of his claim.

The defendant is a married woman, the owner of the farm upon which the barn was built, as well as the other property situate thereon. The contract, as claimed by. the-plaintiff, was made with the defendant through her son, . George Eldred. The defense was that Mrs. Eldred never j employed the plaintiff to build the barn, and that the-I contract was made by her son, George Eldred.

The defendant testified…