Sweat v. Skaggs

REID, C.

As plaintiff, L. N. Skaggs, sued Nannie Sweat and E. W. Whitney, as defendants, alleging that under a verbal contract made with them he was to operate a certain grist mill in Wewoka, Okla., which had belonged to Ed Sweat, deceased; that under the contract he was to run the mill for the customary wages paid for such services in the vicinity of the place where the mill was run, and he further pleaded that the usual and reasonable wages was the sum of $5 per day; that he had worked 115 days, and he prayed judgment against the defendants for the amount so due.

The defendants answered by…