Case ID: del_2/html/0300-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHN D. ANDERSON vs. CALEB NUTTER
    An action for a freedom suit due by indenture of apprenticeship is within the j uris. diction of a justice of the peace.
    Certiorari to Justice Lowber.
    Record. Nutter vs. Anderson. Action for work and labor, and for a freedom suit due by indenture of apprenticeship, $20.
    A copy of the indenture was sent up with the record. It was under seal and in the usual form ; and one of the covenants was “ to give said apprentice when free, a freedom suit of clothes of a tolerable good quality, over and above his common clothes.”
    Trial by referees and judgment for plaintiff.
    
      The exception taken to the record was, that this was not within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace; but
    
      Frame, for plaintiff in error.
   The Court

said it was a contract for the delivery of a chattel, and within the magistrate’s jurisdiction.

Judgment affirmed.