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8 Cow. 35

Hatch v. Adams

Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · decided 1827-10-15

On error from the C. P. of Jefferson. The action in . the court below was assumpsit by Hatch against Adams and otkerSi Be declared in two special counts : ■ one on a contract by the defendants to hire him one year at $8 per week, he boarding himself; the other at $6 50, he being boarded: each count averring performance. The declara- * ° 1 also contained the common count for work and labor.

Decided 1827-10-15

* Curia, per Sutherland, J.

¶1The contract should have been declared on as an alternative one in a single count, the plaintiff averring his election to have boarded himself or to have.been boarded. (1 Chit. Pl. 302; 2 East, 2 ; 2 B. & P. 119, note a ; 3 T. R. 531; 8 East, 8; 18 John. 455.)

¶2But the plaintiff contends the evidence entitled him to recover under the common count. It is a sufficient answer, to say that his evidence was offered under the special counts, as the bill of .exceptions states. He did not claim on the trial that it applied to the common count. It was impliedly admitted by him, that if there was a fatal variance, he ought to be non-suited.

¶3Judgment affirmed.,

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