Evans v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

The plaintiff is a locomotive engineer. He sued the defendant, a railroad corporation, for wages alleged to be due to him. The action was instituted before a justice of the peace, where plaintiff obtained judgment by default for $141.62, the whole amount claimed. Upon trial in the cir*523cuit court, it appeared by the testimony that plaintiff was first ■employed to run a locomotive on mileage terms, and that subsequently on or about December 10, 1881, he was put in charge of a consolidated engine, as he claims on a hiring from month to month, and monthly wages of $115, and as defendant claims on…