Gossom v. Badgett
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 36 — PETITION— CITED Civil Code, secs. 156, 158. 17 Barbour, 274, Burger v. Columbian Ins. Co. 28 Barbour, 441, Gasper v. Adams. CITED 3 E. D. Smith, 280, Parsons v. Snydum. 15 Barb. 525, Harrington v. Higham. 21 Barb. 26, Bonsteel v. Vanderbilt. 16 Barb. 33, Parker v. Jackson. New York Civil Code, sec. 274. Kentucky Civil Code, secs. 398, 399, 402, 89, 38, 158. 1 Chitty’s Pleadings, p. 50. 14 B. Mon. 84. 1 Met. 339, 430.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HARDIN
delivered the opinion of the court.
Near the close of the late civil war Thompson Gossom, Cornelius Jenkins, and John C. Jenkins, of Warren County, to avoid being, coerced into the military service of the United States under a draft then about being enforced, through said Gossom engaged H. M. Garret, a “substitute broker” at Louisville, to furnish and procure to he accepted a substitute for each of them for the sum of one thousand dollars; and in pursuance of their arrangement with Garret they placed one thousand dollars each in the hands of W. H. Newman, of Louisville, to he paid…
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