Haggin's Administrator v. Price

Some time in February, 1831, Hannah Price, who then kept a boarding house in Frankfort, agreed with James Haggin, to take into her house and entertain as boarders, himself, wife and two daughters, for one year, at the price of five hundred dollars.

Pursuant to that agreement, Haggin and his said family commenced boarding with Mrs. Price on the 19th of March, 1831, and continued as boarders with her until some time in the month of June succeeding, when, for some cause undisclosed to her, they left her house and never returned.

Haggin having paid to Mrs. Price about sixty dollars, and afterwards…