Ahrens v. Ladley

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal following an order sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint.

The defendant owned a “working share” in a co-operative plywood corporation. He became postmaster at Elma, Washington, and being unable to continue his employment at the plant entered into an oral agreement with the plaintiff whereby the plaintiff agreed to work the share for him, and any wages he received in excess of a certain amount were to be paid to the defendant. They agreed that the plaintiff should work the share as long as the defendant remained postmaster, or until…