Addison v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff’s amended petition alleges an implied contract under which the plaintiff would be entitled to recover on a quantum meruit basis. The motion for summary judgment and the sworn testimony in connection therewith show a contract (actual or implied), between the plaintiff and the United States Post Office Department under which the plaintiff was a “mail messenger” employed to transport mail between the Post Office where he was employed and the defendant railroad, that at the time he first began such employment the necessary labor to load and unload mail from…