Jessup v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Hamilton District Court. — How. J. L. Stevens, Judge. Tiie petition declares on an oral agreement to give the plaintiff permanent employment as a fireman on a switch engine, at Eagle Grove, at forty dollars a month, in consideration of the settlement of a claim field by tfie plaintiff for personal injuries while in the employment of the defendant. ’ There was a judgment upon a verdict for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, C. J.
I. By the denial of the plaintiff of the correctness of the defendant’s abstract, and by the denial of defendant of the amendments and the abstract made by the plaintiff, we are sent to the transcript to discover the real contents of the record. But, as much of the disputed contents of the record are involved in points which ought not to be determined upon this appeal, we find it unnecessary to refer to the transcript, except upon one or two unimportant points. The question in the case which, in our opinion, is controlling and decisive upon this appeal, is presented upon the following facts,…
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