Bobo v. Bryson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. Hon. William C. Bevens, Circuit Judge. In this case, Robert S. Bryson was insolvent, owned neither horses nor oxen; was in the habit of hiring out his sons and appropriating the proceeds of their labor to his own use. The appellee lives with his father; is one of the family, a minor; the father by law entitled to his labor or the proceeds thereof.
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. Hon. William C. Bevens, Circuit Judge. In this case, Robert S. Bryson was insolvent, owned neither horses nor oxen; was in the habit of hiring out his sons and appropriating the proceeds of their labor to his own use. The appellee lives with his father; is one of the family, a minor; the father by law entitled to his labor or the proceeds thereof. The father has just as full and complete legal right to the services of his son, and to the proceeds of his labor, as he has to his horse, and we cannot comprehend .the ethics that would permit the father to give…
1Opinion of the Court
Hon. Thomas Johnson, Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The first point presented relates to the propriety of the ruling of the Circuit Court, in excusing the witness, Roberts. Bryson, from answering the question propounded to him by the defendant. The question was: Did you not, about the time or a short time before David McKnight let your son, the plaintiff, have the roan horse, tell J. W. Townsend, esq., in his office, in the town of Smithville, that you were a poor man and in embarrassed circumstances, and that you had neither horse nor oxen, and how you could buy a horse in…
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