Boyer v. Riley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jefferson District Gowrt. Plaintiff claims $2530.00 on account of labor performed on the farm of defendant, at defendant’s request, continuously from the year 1853 to the year 1868. The answer denies all the allegations of the petition.
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Appeal from Jefferson District Gowrt. Plaintiff claims $2530.00 on account of labor performed on the farm of defendant, at defendant’s request, continuously from the year 1853 to the year 1868. The answer denies all the allegations of the petition. There was a jury trial, and a verdict for plaintiff for $150.00. The defendant filed a motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, because 1. The verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence. 2. The verdict is contrary to the law given the jury by the , court. The court overruled the motion upon the first ground, and sustained it as to…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, J. —
The abstract recites that upon the trial evidence was introduced tending to prove that when plaintiff was five or six years old, he was placed with defendant by a friend who had no legal control or charge of him. Defendant agreed to bring up plaintiff and educate and clothe him, and when he was of age give him $100 or a horse and saddle.
Plaintiff remained with defendant as a member of his family, receiving nurture and care, and when he became of sufficient age performed service and labor for defendant continuously on his farm, and made his house his home, until December 1868, when he…
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