Whetstine v. . Wilson

The action began before a justice of the peace to recover the value of work done by the plaintiff for the intestate of the defendant in his lifetime, "by hauling and chopping wood and making fires and waiting on S.C. Wilson (the intestate) in his last sickness, and for feeding his stock, for the space of three years preceding his death, to the amount of three hundred dollars." The defendant denied such indebtedness, pleaded the statute of limitations and counterclaim. The plaintiff recovered and the defendant appealed to the Superior Court.

The following is so much of the case settled on…