North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. v. Hyland

Suit by the appellee against the appellant for work and labor, with proceedings in attachment. Answer, the general denial; trial by the court; finding for the appellee in the sum of $140.20; motion for a new trial overruled, and judgment on the verdict.

It is admitted by the appellant that $60.25 of the recovery was correct. But it is insisted that for the residue, being for work done after April 1st, 1882, the appellant was not liable. The work prior to that time, about which there is no dispute, was performed by the appellee for the appellant at its coke works in Fountain county, this State.…