Noonan v. Spoor Mackey & Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Gary

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant engaged the appellee to do work and furnish materials in repairing and decorating a dwelling house. The proof of the amount of work and materials is the testimony of a witness that he was the foreman of the men who worked on the job, and went in the mornings and afternoons —perhaps not every day—to see in the morning if the men were at work, and in the afternoon to see what they had done, and then made up the account of their work from time sheets furnished by the men themselves on the mornings of the days when they…