Cameron v. Austin

The complaint of the respondent is for work and labor, to recover a balance of $197.58 after deducting payments. The answer, after a general denial, sets up an oral agreement under which said labor was performed, by the’terms of which the defendant sold to the plaintiff eighty acres of land at the agreed price of $400, the plaintiff to pay interest thereon, and to pay the taxes on said land, and that he should pay therefor in and by said labor, and that his wages therefor, in excess of the support of the plaintiff and his family, were to be applied upon the payment for said land. It is…