Collins v. Beecher

Collins sued the Marquette & Pacific Rolling Mill Company to recover compensation for labor performed for the company in the year 1877. Beecher was made a joint defendant, as being a stockholder. A bill of particulars being called for by Beecher, was given as follows:

The above work performed as common miner in the Rolling Mill Mine.

On the trial the plaintiff gave evidence tending to show that he was employed to labor ■ for the Rolling Mill Co. in 1877; that W. W. Wheaton was treasurer and general manager of the company in that year, and James Bale superintendent under him, and that Bale,…