Barnes v. Ryan

Appeal from a judgment entered upon the decision of a judge at special term on an appeal pending in the Clinton ■county court from the judgment of a justice of the peace, and certified do the supreme court by the county judge on account of his disability to hear the same. The action was prosecuted in justice’s court to recover $50, which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant agreed by parol to pay him in settlement of a disputed claim made by the plaintiff against the defendant for obstructing the flow of water in a ditch which passed through the adjoining lands of plaintiff and defendant.…