Law v. Taylor

SPERRY, Commissioner.

This is a suit by plaintiff, Law, against defendants Taylor (husband and wife) on an oral contract for the reasonable value of plaintiff’s services in selling earth fill, or dirt, .removed from land owned by defendants and sold to Missouri Pacific R. R. Co., which corporation was joined as a defendant. However, the Court sustained a motion for directed verdict in favor of Missouri Pacific. From a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the amount of $4,050, defendants Taylor appeal.

Defendants owned some 35 acres of land located just north of the Chouteau Bridge, in Clay…