Zimmerle v. Felzien

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff recovered judgment against defendant for $119.25 as an alleged balance due for wages in building a house.

The action was commenced before a justice of the peace. The issues were framed in bills of particulars filed by the litigants.

Plaintiff alleged that in the summer of 1922 he and defendant made an oral agreement whereby he undertook to do all the carpenter work on a house being constructed on defendant’s farm for $850—

“And pursuant to said verbal contract plaintiff employed workmen, and also used his own labor, and started on…