Mayfield v. Hesston Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

This action sought to recover the reasonable value of plaintiff’s services arising out of an oral contract by which the defendant corporation employed him to design and aid in designing a new and more practical swather for its manufacture and sale. The defendant filed a motion to make definite and certain winch was sustained in part and overruled in part, and the plaintiff filed an amended petition. The defendant demurred to the amended petition on the ground that it failed to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and that…