Gruetzner v. Aude Furniture Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. George W. Lubke, Judge. A contract for personal services must be fully performed before the servant or person employed can recover anything. Wood on Master and Servant, sec. 147, pp. 291, 293, and 294, note 2 ; Edwards on Bailments, sec. 437; Earp v. Tyler, 73 Mo. 617; Posey v. Garth, 7 Mo. 95; Henson v. Hampton, 32 Mo, 408; Caldwell v. DicJcson, 17 Mo. 575; Schnerr v. Lemp, 19 Mo. 40 ; Hamel v. Ereund, 17 Mo.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. George W. Lubke, Judge. A contract for personal services must be fully performed before the servant or person employed can recover anything. Wood on Master and Servant, sec. 147, pp. 291, 293, and 294, note 2 ; Edwards on Bailments, sec. 437; Earp v. Tyler, 73 Mo. 617; Posey v. Garth, 7 Mo. 95; Henson v. Hampton, 32 Mo, 408; Caldwell v. DicJcson, 17 Mo. 575; Schnerr v. Lemp, 19 Mo. 40 ; Hamel v. Ereund, 17 Mo. App. 618 ; Downs v. Smit, 15 Mo. App. 583. There was a contract for the performance of a particular service or thing. Stout v. St. Louis…
1Opinion of the Court
Romjbauer, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. >
The plaintiff brought an action before a justice of the peace on the following account:
“ Aude Furniture Co, to August Gruetzner, Dr.
4 ‘ To work and labor done as cabinet-maker, performed in April and May, 1886, on fifty bedsteads, No. 71...............$16 46
Thirty-six bedsteads, No. 73............. 29 85
Which work was reasonably worth said sum and the aggregate sum of...... 46 31 ”
Judgment being rendered in favor of plaintiff, defendant appealed to the circuit court, where the case was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury.…
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