Cobb v. Long Bell Lumber Co.

Plaintiff, who. was running a blacksmith shop in Deridder fully equipped to shoe horses and mules, entered into a contract with defendant ¿company to have its mules shod. It was agreed that the shoeing of the mules would be done by plaintiff at the barn of defendant company, in consideration of the offer that plaintiff would get a regular job to shoe all of its mules. Plaintiff went in his conveyance to the barn, and carried with him the nails, shoes, hammers and aprons necessary to do the shoeing.

It is shown that he was doing the work for the same price he was charging at his shop to his…