Wood v. Brewer & Brewer

The present suit was brought by Brewer & Brewer, as transferrees of Graham, to recover the value of work and labor, alleged to have been performed by the latter, for and at the request of appellant’s testator, in bis life-time. Before the trial was had in the court below, Mr. Wood, the *571testator, had died ; and the suit was revived in the name of the executrix. That services were performed, does not appear to have been disputed. The real defense is, that Wood did not employ Graham, but that one Hall was cultivating Wood’s plantation that year, aDd was himself to employ the labor; and that, if…