McDonald v. Sargent
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
CONTRACT, upon an account annexed, for services rendered. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The plaintiff sues upon a quantum meruit to recover for his services from March 25, 1891, to June 13, 1893. On April 27,1891, after the plaintiff had worked for the defendants about a month, he entered into a written agreement with them by which he agreed to work for the defendants for three years, as an apprentice, for the purpose of learning the trade of a machinist. The amount to be paid was seventy-five cents a day for the first year, eighty-five cents a day for the second year, and ninety-five cents a day for the third year. At this time the plaintiff was a minor, not becoming of age…
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