Bartholomew v. Jackson

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Labour or service voluntarily done and "mid the^íaintiff for the defendant, vityorrequest^ toriouTor'bT neficiai it may fendant, as in saving hts property from dcstruction by ground of act ion.

IN ERROR, on certiorari toa Justice’s Court. Jackson sued Bartholomew before a Justice, for work and labour, &c. B. pleaded non assumpsit. It appeared in evidence, that Jackson owned a wheat stubble-field, in which B. had a stack of wheat, which he had promised to remove in due season for preparing the ground for a fall crop. The time for its removal having arrived, J. sent a message to B., which, in his absence, was delivered to his family, requesting tpe immediate removal of the stack of wheat, as he wished, 5 7 on the next day, to burn the stubble on the field. The sons of B. answered, that they would remove the stack by 10 o’clock the next morning. J. waited until that hour, and. then set fire to the stubble, in a remote part of the field. The fire spreading rapidly, and threatening to burn the stack of wheat, and J., finding that B. and his sons neglected to remove the stack, set to work and removed it himself, so as to secure it for B.; and he claimed to recover damages for the work and labour in its removal. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for 50 cents, on which the Justice gave judgment, with costs.