Alderton v. Wright

The plaintiff sued in assumpsit for the labor of himself and wife.

He claimed that in 1876 he made an arrangement with the defendant, who is his uncle, to take charge of his farm, and that he and his present wife, whom at that time he was about to marry, should live on the uncle’s place; that the defendant agreed to pay him, as a laborer on the farm, the same wages that other men received, and also to pay his wife for housekeeping. The amount of his wife’s wages was not fixed. Plaintiff claimed that 'December 2, 1876, he and his wife, moved into defendant’s house with him, and commenced work;…