Thompson v. Reed

This was an account, filed by John Thompson, against Eliza Reed, as administratrix of David Reed, in the County Court, and, after a trial there, the suit was taken to the Circuit Court, where the jury, besides setting off a note for $126, held by the estate against the plaintiff, and admitted to be just, gave the plaintiff a verdict for $8.10. There was judgment on this verdict, and the plaintiff has appealed, claiming a much larger sum. The account sued upon, is chiefly based upon a claim for the board, during the last seven and a half years of her life, of the mother of said David Eeed, she…