Coe v. Wager

This suit was originally brought before a justice upon the common counts, and on a special contract whereby Coe, the defendant below, leased a farm which he owned to Wager and one William Otto, on the terms that Wager should have one-third of all the products and stock with some named exceptions,— the breach being a refusal to allow Wager to have his share, and an appropriation of it.

The case set up on the trial was for services of Wager in person and with his team during the winter and spring of 1877 from February 10 to April 1. In February, as he testified, he made a contract with Coe for…