Walsh v. St. Louis Drayage Co.

This is an action for personal services as a teamster, and was originally instituted before a justice of the peace. The account filed claims a balance due of seventeen dollars and fifty cents for two weeks’ services at ten dollars per week, less a credit of two dollars and fifty cents for cash paid. The defendant tendered before the justice of the peace to the plaintiff one dollar and sixty-five cents as a balance due him, and renewed the offer in the circuit court, its counsel admitting in his opening statement to the jury that that amount was justly due. On trial in the circuit court the…