Lock v. Miller

This was an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, to the Circuit court of Dallas county. In that court the plaintiff proved, by his own oath, or it was admitted by the other party, that the defendant was indebted to him, in the sum of fifteen dollars. Evidence was then introduced, to prove that the plaintiff, as the agent of the defendant, had received upwards of fifty dollars —it does not appear how much — in Mobile ; which the plaintiff alleged, had been stolen from him : it also was- admitted, by the defendant, that he had sued the plaintiff in the Circuit court, for the…