¶1I am of opinion that a non-suit ought to be granted. The plaintiff has had the full benefit of his contract, and appears to have been satisfied with it; and, I am not satisfied that it was an unreasonable one. Few persons perhaps would have the trouble of such a man, for the services of the ablest bodied man in the state. As for defendant’s *449Saying he could not let him go ; perhaps he was not authorised by contract to let him go : perhaps his services were useful only in some particular kinds of work: he might have been more useful to him about harvest than any other time. In any view of the case he is not entitled to the verdict. If he is unable to take care of himself, let his friends apply to the Court of Equity, and have a committee appointed for him. Until then he must be bound by his contracts, when there is no fraud or undue ad* vantage taken of his situation.
6 S.C.L. 448
Dodds v. Wilson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided April 15, 1813
Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1813-04-15
Columbia, April Term, 1813; The plaintiff in this case, being a man of a weak , -i*, mind, made an agreement with the defendant to serve him a yeai for his food and clothes. His father Save notice to the defendant, that if he kept him he must pay at the rate of five dollars per month for his service. Defendant then desired him to go away hut he refused to go.
Decided 1813-04-15