Brown v. Wood

Brown sued Wood for labor and materials, before a justice of the peace in attachment. The suit was .commenced on the 2d December, 1852, and the account was dated 11th September, 1852. On an appeal being taken to the law commissioner’s court, the account of the plaintiff was shown to be just, and it appeared that the labor had been done. A witness for the plaintiff, the brother of the defendant, testified that he had been acting for his brother, the defendant, since the first of January, 1858, under a power of attorney; that there was another power of attorney, dated about December, 1851, but…