Engleman's Executors v. Engleman

This is an action of assumpsit instituted by John En-gletnan against the cxecutors of Simon Engleman, his deceased father, for work and labor by himself and his two slaves, for the decedent in his lifetime.

Upon the trial, on the general issue, the plaintiff in the action proved that life had lived with his father until ids' death, which occurred in 1829; that he, (the plaintiff) was married in the spring of the year 1828, when he was a minor; that he was not-twenty one years old until 1829; that he managed the farm of his father (whose estate was large) during the years 1828-9, and that both…