Lansing Turnverein Society v. Carter

The plaintiff brought this action before a justice of the peace to recover damages for an alleged breach of an oral agreement, by which it is claimed the defendant promised to loan the society the sum of $1,200, which plaintiff agreed to secure by note and mortgage.

The declaration is verbal — First, upon the common counts; and, second, for the violation of an agreement, the substance of which is that the defendant, on October 26, 1885, was engaged in loaning money, and the plaintiff' on that day contracted with the defendant that it would hire of him $1,250, for the period of five years, and…