Groves v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, Railroad

Voríes, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought under the provisions of the tenth section of the laws of this State concerning railroad companies, for work and labor charged to have been performed by *305plaintiff and bis bands and teams, in constructing a portion of defendant’s railroad, under an employment by parties who bad contracted witli tbe defendant to construct certain parts of said railroad.

The plaintiff’s petition was as follows: Plaintiff states that tbe defendant owes bim seventy-seven dollars, for twenty-two days works with two bands and two wagons, and two…