Stark v. Magnuson

Gallagher, Chief Justice.

Action to recover the reasonable value of services rendered in keeping and pasturing cattle. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $481.80, and defendant appeals from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff was a tenant on defendant’s farm in Clay county, Minnesota. In August 1938 defendant proposed buying some steers to fatten for market. According to plaintiff’s testimony, defendant agreed to buy the steers and furnish free pasture, plaintiff to feed them through the winter. They were to be “sold off of the grass” the next fall. Plaintiff’s…