Wilson v. Graham

Lipscomb J.

This suit was brought before a Justice of the Peace, on a promise in writing, as follows : On or before the first of July, we or either of us promise to break 25 acres of land well for Addison Wilson, by said Wilson boarding the hands while breaking said land, which may be discharged by paying seventy-five dollars by the 25th of December next, this the 6th November, 1850.

JOHN GRAHAM.

JAMES A. GRAHAM.

There was a verdict for the plaintiff in the Justice’s Court, for twenty dollars special damages, on which the Justice rendered judgment for that amount, with costs. The defendants…