Ackley v. Hoskins
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of covenant, on an indenture of ticeship. The declaration stated, that by a certain indenture of apprenticeship, one part of w-hich indenture sealed with the seal of the defendant the plaintiff brings into court, one Sheldon Curtis, aged 15, put himself an apprentice with the plaintiff to learn his trade of a hatter, and to serve the plaintiff until he should . 1 attain the age of 21 ; that it was thereby covenanted and agreed, ® J n * that the said…
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THIS was an action of covenant, on an indenture of ticeship. The declaration stated, that by a certain indenture of apprenticeship, one part of w-hich indenture sealed with the seal of the defendant the plaintiff brings into court, one Sheldon Curtis, aged 15, put himself an apprentice with the plaintiff to learn his trade of a hatter, and to serve the plaintiff until he should . 1 attain the age of 21 ; that it was thereby covenanted and agreed, ® J n * that the said apprentice, his said master should well and fahy servej &c- &c. ; that for the true performance of the nants on the part of…
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. The question is, whether the defendant is bound by any of the cove*378nants contained in the indenture. In the case of Mead v. Billings, (10 Johns. Rep. 99.) the indenture is very different from the present. There, after staling what the master and apprentice respectively stipulated, the indenture concludes, that, “ for the true performance of, all and singular, the covenants and agreements aforesaid, the said parties .bind themselves each unto the other.’’ Here the father clearly made himself a party to the covenants, and expressly bound…
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