Craft v. Dalles City

This was an action to recover money claimed to be due on an alleged written contract to survey and establish a base of grades and map of the city for which the defendant was to pay the plaintiff at the rate of forty-five dollars per mile for such survey, and five dollars apiece for each monument-stone established, etc.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff fully performed the work and completed it at the time specified according to the terms of such contract, and the particular sum it amounted to and the amount paid upon it, and the amount due thereon, etc. The defendant denied each of the…