Scheland v. Erpelding

By tlie Court, Boise, J.:

• John Erpelding, the respondent and defendant in this suit, commenced an action in the circuit court of Multnomah county against Henry Scheland, the appellant and plaintiff. Said action was commenced on the eighteenth day of September, 1875, and was for the recovery of wages. Plaintiff in that action alleged that Scheland ivas indebted to him for wages as a cooper from August 15, 1873, to September 30, 1873, at fifty dollars, in gold coin, besides board and lodging, which was worth, as he says, for that time, twenty-five dollars, making in all the sum of one hundred…