LaPlant v. Axelson

The action, which originated in the court of a justice of the peace hence no pleadings, was to recover of the defendant for work and labor done by the plaintiff in the painting of defendant’s buildings. It seems that there was a judg*96ment there for the plaintiff. The defendant appealed from that judgment to the county court of Phillips county, and in the trial before the court, with a jury, there was a judgment, as stated by counsel in their briefs, for defendant on his counterclaim for $22.15, that being the amount which defendant says he had overpaid on the work. To review the alleged…