Case ID: ky_42/html/0057-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "■Chief Justice Robertson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Pell et al. vs Dickens.
    Debt.
    Error to the Livingston Circuit.
    
      Case 17..
    
    
      September 16.
    
      Owsley cf- Goodloe for plaintiff: Harlan-fy Craddocks for ■defendant.
    
      Construction of instruments.
    
    A written memorandum, signed by the clerk of a steam boat acknowledging that there is “due from the boat "to D. for services as steward, neither imports nor operates as a covenant on the owner of the boat.
   ■Chief Justice Robertson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The written memorandum, signed by the clerk of the steam boat Sultan, acknowledging that $249 66, were “due from the boat” to the plaintiff, Dickens, for services us steward, neither imports nor can operate as-a covenant •by either the clerk or the owners of the boat. It-is only evidence of a parol assumpsit, or an implied obligation of the owners to pay Dickens that sum for his services on their boat.

Debt, on simple contract, as brought in this case, was 'therefore maintainable. This conclusion settles all question as to the correctness of the judgment we are now revising.

Judgment affirmed.