Barger v. Caldwell

Judge Nicholas

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an action, brought by the appellee, for the benefit of Wheat, on an indenture of apprenticeship, in which he obtained a verdict and judgment against the appellant.

_ _ The declaration sets forth the indenture, signed by plaintiff and defendant, “ whereby the plaintiff, as clerk of the county court of Adair, by virtue of an order of said court, put Mason Wheat, a poor boy, as an apprentice to the defendant; with the defendant to dwell during the term of twelve years, or until the said Mason Wheat should arrive at the age of twenty one…