Supreme Court of North Carolina January 5, 1871 (Erwin v. Western North Carolina Rail Road)

Dick, J.

If the plaintiff had hired his negroes to the defendant on the 1st day of January, 1865, for Confederate currency, under an ordinary contract of hiring — then this case would come within the decision in

Williams

v.

Rockwell,

64 N. C. 325—and the plaintiff would he entitled to recover the value of the services of his negroes.