Schmidt v. Van Woerden

The plaintiff sued to recover from the defendants sums alleged to be due him, for services as ranch foreman and as assignee of the claims of other farm laborers employed by defendants on the ranch. The complaint also included an uncontested claim for a small sum advanced by plaintiff on defendants ’ account for merchandise. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and from findings and judgment in favor of plaintiff, the defendants appeal.

The appellants purchased a ranch in the Ephrata district, embracing about two hundred acres, one hundred of which was in cultivation, forty acres…