Case Name: ROBERTS vs. SMITH
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1824-06-14
Citations: 5 Litt. 348
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROBERTS vs. SMITH.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 348–348

Head Matter:
ROBERTS vs. SMITH.
From the Franklin Circuit Court, the Hon. Jesse Bledsoe sole Judge.
Bibb and Monroe, for Roberts; Sharp, for Smith.
June 14.
Ona contract for the hire of son ibr * at$80,^f^the son abandons the service at^he^encTof six months, a justice of the furisdiction0* of the case,

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court,
by Judge Owsley.
THIS being an appeal from a judgment of a justice to the circuit court, where the cause was tried without pleadings in writing, and evidence having been introdu°ed on ^16 trial in the circuit court by Smith, who is plaintiff in the warrant, conducing to prove that he had hired his son to Roberts, for the term of one year, at the of eighty dollars, and that after serving six months ^ time, his son voluntarily abandoned the service of Roberts, the court should have instructed the jury, that in this form of suit, Smith could not recover, if they be^evec^ fr0In the evidence that the contract for the hire of Smith's son, was for the term of one year, at eighty dollars, and that the son had not remained with Roberts during that time; and in refusing so to instruct the jury, the court erred.
The judgment must be reversed with costs, the cause remanded to the court below, and further proceedings there had, not inconsistent with this opinion.