Gingrass v. Iron Cliffs Co.

Gingrass recovered below a round sum of $10,000 under a bill of particulars including among other things an account for stripping the surface of an iron mine and certain work as overseer; the former in the year 1873, and the latter from February, 1873, to February, 1875. His claim for the former work is based on the ground that he did more than was necessary to work the mine on his-contract during the year 1873, in reliance on further similar work in the succeeding years, of which he was deprived by countermand at the close of that year. He insisted on the trial that it was agreed he should…