Beers v. Dalles City

This is an action against Dalles City to recover for the services of certain laborers employed by the street commissioner, which labor was performed in laying down a certain sewer within the corporate limits of said city. The amended complaint, after alleging that the defendant was a municipal corporation at and during all the times thereinafter stated, alleges that during the month of May, 1884, one W. F. Butts, the street commissioner of the defendant corporation, acting by, through, and under the directions and authority of the defendant, expressly given and commanded, employed for the…