Pearson v. White & Cochran

The suit was brought in a justice’s court, upon a promissory note. The defendant filed a plea of infancy. The evidence is uneontradieted that he was a minor when the note was executed. The plaintiffs adduced testimony.to the effect that the consideration of the note was an account for clothing furnished to the minor, and that for some years he had worked in some near-by mines, collecting his own wages and signing the weekly pay-roll. There was also evidence that he had conducted a farm, but this was irrelevant, because -it appears that the farming was subsequent to the execution of the note.…