Ball v. Stevens

This is an action to recover wages for farm labor performed pursuant to an oral contract. Respondent testified it was agreed he was to be paid $2.50 a day and his dinner, and appellant testified it was agreed respondent was to have $1.50 a day and his dinner. There was no controversy about the meals. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and judgment was for respondent for $2.50 a day, from which this appeal has been prosecuted.

The farm, where the labor in question was performed, is about six and one-half miles northeast of Jerome. A. S. Lamonte, a witness produced by appellant,…