Hodo v. Benecke

This was an action begun before a justice of the peace. Plaintiff alleges that he is a boarding-house keeper in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the city of St. Louis, and that defendant Benecke owes him a balance of $69 on account of six months’ board to July 1, 1878, at $18 a month ; and that defendant, the Missouri Zinc Company, a corporation, owes Benecke $38.40 for work and labor performed by Benecke for it. Plaintiff asks judgment against Benecke, and that the same be declared a lien upon the wages due him by the Zinc Company, and that these wages be appropriated to the payment of the…