Wood v. McCann

This writ of error brings up for revision, a judgment by default, rendered, for one hundred dollars, in favor of the defendant in error, on a declaration in debt, alleging that the plaintiff in error, by a writing obligatory, “promised, agreed, and bound himself to pay the said “ plaintiff (defendant here) the sum of one hundred dol- “ lars — to attend the Kentucky Legislature, to get a bill “ passed legalizing his, the said defendant’s, (plaintiff here) “ marriage with Harriet Johnson, and divorcing (him) “from his former wife;” and averring that he (defendant here) “ did attend the…