Prentiss v. Ledyard
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milivauhee County. Action commenced in a justice’s court, against Ledyard, upon a contract for services.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milivauhee County. Action commenced in a justice’s court, against Ledyard, upon a contract for services. The complaint alleged that on the first of January, 1869, Ledyard entered into a contract with the plaintiff for the services of the latter as clerk and bookkeeper in Ledyard's store, “at the rate of $900 per year;” that between said date and May 22, 1870, (a period of sixteen months and twenty-two days), plaintiff faithfully served said defendant from time to time under said contract, for the period of eleven and one-third months, amounting, at the agreed…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
As we understand the evidence in this case, the plaintiff was to be paid for his services either at the rate of $900 or $700 a year, but no definite time of service was agreed upon. The plaintiff stated in the complaint, and so testified on the trial, that the agreement was that he was to be paid at the rate of $900 a year. The defendant, in his testimony, states the contract as follows: “ After he [the plaintiff] had been in my employment some days or weeks, we had a conversation. I told him if he would serve me faithfully and would be strictly temperate, I would give him $700 per year; and…
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