Mitchell v. Oregon Flax Ass'n
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: Geo H. Burnett, Judge. Action by W. E. Mitchell against the Oregon Women’s Flax-Fiber Association, to¡ recover $470.74 for labor and services performed by the plaintiff for the defendant corporation.
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From Marion: Geo H. Burnett, Judge. Action by W. E. Mitchell against the Oregon Women’s Flax-Fiber Association, to¡ recover $470.74 for labor and services performed by the plaintiff for the defendant corporation. The complaint alleges, in substance: (1) That between the seventeenth of March, 1897, and the first of April, 1898, the plaintiff performed eleven months’ labor and services for the defendant, at its request, of the reasonable worth and value of $40 per month, amounting in the aggregate to $440, no part of which has been paid, except the sum of $251.91; (2) that between the first of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Bean
The Constitution of Oregon, Article I, § 17, guaranties to every suitor in a civil action the right to a trial by a jury, of which right he cannot be deprived by the court on its own motion or that of his adversary, unless it affirmatively appears, with reasonable certainty, that the trial will require the examination of a long account on either side: Hill’s Ann. Laws, § 222. Just how long an account must be in order to justify a compulsory reference has not been, and, in the nature of the case, cannot be, exactly determined. Mr. Cooper says: “That the account must be ‘long’is conceded, but…
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- Feeter v. . ArkenburghNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Welsh v. . DarraghNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
- Cassidy v. . McFarlandNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- Hedges v. Methodist Protestant ChurchAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- McAleer v. SinnottAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
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