Lane v. Price

Lane hired a negro man of Price for one year, and gave his bond for eighty dollars, the amount of the hire, and subsequently paid it without complaint.

Lane afterwards sued Price before a justice of the peace, to recover for time lost by said negro man in consequence of sickness while he was hired to said Lane. Price had judgment before the justice, and Lane appealed to the circuit court.

On the trial in the circuit court, Lane offered to prove by parol testimony, “ that at the time of hiring, it was agreed that if the negro was taken sick, he was to be sent home to the defendant, and the…