Novak v. Baumann

BARRETT, Commissioner.

This is an action by a bookkeeper-accountant to recover the reasonable value of “additional or special accounting and related services” rendered the defendant. The defendant claimed that any work the plaintiff had done was a part of his regular monthly employment for which he was paid in full. In addition, the defendant asserted that the plaintiff’s bookkeeping and tax work were worthless, so inaccurately and carelessly done that he was obliged to employ a competent accountant to correct the plaintiff’s work, and therefore he filed a counterclaim in which he asked to…