Druiding v. Lyon

This is a suit by the plaintiff to recover upon a contract which he alleges the defendant made, by which the plaintiff was employed as an architect to draw plans for houses. The plaintiff states three separate counts, as though he had three distinct causes of action, but upon trial it appeared he had but one. The answer was a general denial. Upon the hearing, the defendant moved the court below to compel the plaintiff to elect, which the court refused to do. The *200plaintiff, on direct examination, testified to the effect that, hearing the defendant had bought a lot of land, the plaintiff…