Dubois v. Hand

MARVIN, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff who sued for wages for work done by plaintiff and plaintiff’s 15-*1208year-old son on defendant’s cattle farm. The litigation stems from a misunderstanding between the parties as to the basis upon which defendant was to pay for the work performed.

Before 1975, plaintiff worked for several years for defendant as a farm laborer. He periodically reported his time to defendant and was paid $2.00 an hour. Early in 1975, plaintiff — an uneducated, unaffluent laborer — expressed a desire to have some cows of his own before he got too…