Register Printing Co. v. Willis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, John W. Willis and George M. Nelson, from an order of the Municipal Court of the City of St. Paul, H. W. Gory, J., made August 9, 1893, denying their motion for a new trial.
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Appeal by defendants, John W. Willis and George M. Nelson, from an order of the Municipal Court of the City of St. Paul, H. W. Gory, J., made August 9, 1893, denying their motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, the Begister Printing Company of Glencoe brought this action in the Municipal Court of St. Paul and for complaint alleged that on June 1, 1892, it was a corporation and at defendants’ request furnished materials and printed for them seventeen copies of a paper book of 343 pages in Stensyaarcl v. St. Paul Real Estate Title Ins. Go. (50 Minn. 429,) that the work and material were…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This was an action to recover for labor and services alleged to have been performed by plaintiff for defendants at their instance and request, and to be of the reasonable value of $345, of which only $75 bad been paid. The answer was, in effect, a general denial.
The evidence was sufficient to justify a finding that the services sued for were performed for defendants as alleged. The evidence was undisputed that such services consisted of printing a “paper book” of 345 pages, and were reasonably worth $1 per page, or $345; but it also appeared on cross-examination of plaintiff’s witnesses that…
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