Vigliotti v. Campano

The plaintiff brought this action to recover for services rendered the defendant upon his farm, offering evidence to prove and, as the verdict shows, proving to the satisfaction of the jury, that he was promised $5 a month in excess of the rate of wages that other farmers in the locality were paying. To establish that rate of wages he offered two witnesses; one, a farmer who employed labor only eight months of the year, and who stated that his only knowledge as to wages paid during the other four months was from information given him by others, was permitted, over the defendant’s objection,…