Hogg v. Laster
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. 1. Upon the uncontroverted facts in proof plaintiff was not entitled to a verdict. 2. The first instruction for plaintiff is not the law. 33 Ark. 215 ; 5 Am. Dec. 730 ; 2 Martin, 269 ; 14 Wend. 209 ; Wood on Master and Serv. (2d ed.) secs. 62, 65. 3. The court erred in refusing the fifth and sixth prayers asked by defendant. Wood, M. & S. p. 123 ; 45 Iowa, 308, and cases supra; 13 N. J. Eq. 151; 2 Pars. Cont. (6th ed.) marg. p. 47; 1 Am.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. 1. Upon the uncontroverted facts in proof plaintiff was not entitled to a verdict. 2. The first instruction for plaintiff is not the law. 33 Ark. 215 ; 5 Am. Dec. 730 ; 2 Martin, 269 ; 14 Wend. 209 ; Wood on Master and Serv. (2d ed.) secs. 62, 65. 3. The court erred in refusing the fifth and sixth prayers asked by defendant. Wood, M. & S. p. 123 ; 45 Iowa, 308, and cases supra; 13 N. J. Eq. 151; 2 Pars. Cont. (6th ed.) marg. p. 47; 1 Am. Dec. 632; 62 Iowa, 208 ; 28 id. 548 ; '52 id. 733.
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee against the appellant for $200, rendered in a suit in which the appellee claimed that the appellant was indebted to her in the sum of $468 for 39 months’ service rendered by her for him. The appellee was left an orphan at about the age of ten years, without means, and at the request of a neighbor was taken by the appellant into his family, fed, clothed and sent to school some and treated well. She rendered services for appellant during her minority, cooking, milking cows, ironing clothes, and doing other household work. After she became…
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