Schneer v. Lemp
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Law Commissioner’s Court. This was an action brought by Schneer against Lemp for the value of services alleged to hav.e been rendered as foreman of the defendant’s brewery. At the trial, 'the plaintiff offered evidence tending to show that he was at work in defendant’s brewery, as foreman, from March 27th, 1850, to August 12th, 1851, audit was admitted that the wages claimed were reasonable.
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Appeal from St. Louis Law Commissioner’s Court. This was an action brought by Schneer against Lemp for the value of services alleged to hav.e been rendered as foreman of the defendant’s brewery. At the trial, 'the plaintiff offered evidence tending to show that he was at work in defendant’s brewery, as foreman, from March 27th, 1850, to August 12th, 1851, audit was admitted that the wages claimed were reasonable. Plaintiff also offered evidence tending to show that, at the time he was employed, defendant was in partnership with one Kaegle, and that this partnership was dissolved before the…
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
1. The law commissioner, in the first, third and fourth instructions given for the plaintiff, undertook to direct them as to the effect they were to give the evidence upon the finding of the particular facts. As an instance, he tells them that if the plaintiff contracted to work for the defendant and his partner in their brewery for a year at a stipulated price, they cannot infer that he worked under the same agreement for the second year, merely from the fact that -he continued to work in the brewery after the expiration of the first year, if in the meantime the partnership of the defendant…
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- Gittings v. JeffordsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1922