Walworth v. Pool
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from, the Chicot Circuit Court. Assumpsit, by William B. Pool, against Horace F. Walworth, determined in the Chicot Circuit Court, at the November term, 1847, before the Hon. William H. Suttojt, then one of the circuit judges.
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Appeal from, the Chicot Circuit Court. Assumpsit, by William B. Pool, against Horace F. Walworth, determined in the Chicot Circuit Court, at the November term, 1847, before the Hon. William H. Suttojt, then one of the circuit judges. The action was commenced 29th March, 1847. There were two counts in the declaration: the 1st, indebitatus assumpsit for work and labor done and performed by plaintiff for defendant: the 2d, a special count, alleging that, on the 30th day of December, 1846, defendant employed plaintiff to oversee his plantation, in Chicot county, for the year 1847, commencing on…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
The only legitimate question presented in this case is, whether or not the court below erred in overruling the appellant’s motion for a new trial.
The action was commenced on the 29th of March, 1847, and, having been continued at the May term, to which it was returnable, .was finally disposed of at the November term of that year. The testimony, set out in the appellant’s bill of exceptions to the refusal of the court to grant him a new trial, shows “ that the defendant (below), about the last of December, 1846, employed the plaintiff (below) as an overseer, upon his plantation, for one year,…
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