Hemphill v. De Witt

Appellant sued appellees to recover on a contract; the petition alleging substantially that “Texas Plat & Map Com pany,” having contracted with Hidalgo county to make and complete a plat book and block map system showing all surveys of land in that county, the subdivisions thereof, and the owner of each, employed plaintiff as a draftsman in this work at a salary of $250 a month for his service during regular working hours and $1.87% an hour for overtime work; that under this agreement plaintiff earned, besides his monthly salary, $735.94 by working overtime ; that said plat book and block map…