Jenks v. Liepman Contracting Co.

Quillian, Judge.

In special ground 1 the defendant assigns error on the following excerpt from the court’s charge to the jury: “I charge you that if one engages another to do work, even if it is to be done on the land of another, the party engaging the work, if you find it has been done or performed, is, in law, liable for the agreed consideration or compensation to the one engaged to do the work.” In this ground the defendant avers that the excerpt from the charge is erroneous as an abstract principle of law and excluded from the jury’s consideration a valid defense set up by the- defendant…