Dunck v. Milwaukee County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JohNsoN, Circuit Judge. This is an action for tbe value of services performed by the plaintiff’s intestate for tbe defendant county.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JohNsoN, Circuit Judge. This is an action for tbe value of services performed by the plaintiff’s intestate for tbe defendant county. On tbe trial it appeared that in May, 1894, Garrett Dunck, tbe intestate, was employed by a special committee of tbe board of supervisors of Milwaukee county to examine, as an expert, an alms bouse which bad been recently erected by tbe county, for the purpose of ascertaining whether tbe contractors bad faithfully performed their work. Tbe intestate spent eighteen days in tbe work, and filed…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNSLow, J.
The defendant did not deny the services of the plaintiff’s intestate, but claimed they were rendered under an agreement that the price thereof should not exceed $10 per day, and this was the fundamental issue between the parties upon the trial. Upon this issue the defendant called as witnesses two members of the investigating committee who employed Dunck, who testified to the making of a special contract with him by which he was to receive not exceeding $10 per day for his services. In rebuttal the plaintiff offered the testimony given by Dunck before' the same committee, in which he…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McGeoch v. CarlsonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897