Bennett v. Stephens
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah County. This action was brought by the respondent to recover wages at the rate of twenty dollars a month, for her services rendered to defendant in the capacity of a house-servant and dairy-maid for a period of over nine years. The complaint is the ordinary one for labor and services.
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Appeal from Multnomah County. This action was brought by the respondent to recover wages at the rate of twenty dollars a month, for her services rendered to defendant in the capacity of a house-servant and dairy-maid for a period of over nine years. The complaint is the ordinary one for labor and services. The answer of the defendant denies all of the material allegations of the complaint, and also sets up as separate defenses: 1. The statute of limitations in regard to all of the wages that accrued more than six years preceding the pommencement of the action; and, 2. That said services had…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Prim, J.:
The first assignment of error is that the court erred in excluding evidence of the agreement made between appellant and respondent’s cousin, under which she entered into the household of appellant. This was very properly refused by the court, upon the ground that any arrangement made by the cousin for the respondent would not bind her unless it was shown that the cousin had some authority to bind her, or that she had given or adopted his agency. Upon this ruling of the court, counsel stated that he proposed to prove by said witness and others, to be thereafter produced,…
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