Sanders v. Bartelt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

This is an action to foreclose a lien for labor which the respondent claims to have performed on the property of the appellants. The only question arising is whether respondent was to receive $3 or $2.50 per day for his work. The time respondent worked was twenty-four days and six hours. Briefly stated, one Rube Reynolds, who was a foreman of Bartelt, one of the appellants here, by authority of Bartelt, employed the respondent to work on Bartelt’s building. He contracted with the respondent to pay him $3 per day, but the appellants claim that…