Kessee v. Mayfield & Cage

The plaintiff sues for wages, as overseer of a sugar plantation belonging to defendants, upon a contract. He avers that he was engaged on the 10th April, 1856, at a salary of eight hundred dollars ;.his engagement to terminate at the end of the year ; that he was discharged, on the 22d June, 1856, without cause or provocation. He claims wages for the whole year.

The defendants plead that they had good cause for discharging plaintiff, namely :

1st. Incapacity.

2d. Cruelty to the slaves.

3d. Disregard of the instructions of defendants.

Defendants tendered to plaintiff and deposited in court the…