Lewis v. Watkins

MATTHES, Judge.

In this action for damages a jury awarded plaintiff, respondent, $1,912.12, being the exact amount sued for. Following an unavailing motion for judgment in accordance with the motion for directed verdict or in the alternative for a new trial, defendant, appellant, appealed from the judgment rendered on the verdict.

Respondent alleged in his petition that he employed appellant as a subcontractor to do and perform the grading and excavating upon Lot 2 of Marhaba Park, known and numbered as 1741 Thursby Avenue, where respondent was constructing a dwelling house; that the appellant…