Chrestman v. Russell

Citations

• 73 Miss. 452

Syllabus

<p>1. Employer or Landlord. Laborer or renter. Enticing away. Debts due to employer or landlord not within the statute allowing double damages. Code 1893, $ 1068.</p> <p>Debts due by a laborer or renter to his employer or landlord are not recoverable as damages under the statute making any person who entices away a laborer or renter, before the expiration of the specified time for which he has contracted, liable to the employer or landlord in double the amount of damages which he may have sustained by reason thereof ($ 1068, code 1893); and, in a proceeding to enforce liability under the statute, it is erroneous to instruct the jury that the defendant is liable for all the indebtedness of the laborer or renter to his employer or landlord, growing out of the contract between them.</p> <p>3. Instructions. No bill of exceptions. Effect of its absence.</p> <p>In the absence of a bill of exceptions disclosing the evidence in an action at law, the appellate court will only pass upon such of the instructions complained of as are necessarily erroneous in any state of case.</p>