Gould v. Bonds

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion oe the court:

The appellee sued the appellants by a petition ordinary, alleging that the appellants, having by contract with the Federal Government undertaken to supply cross-ties and other timbers for a railroad, employed him to assist them and furnish one third of the wagons for hauling the ties and other timbers, and with one third of the tools, camp equipage, &c., necessary for completing the work, and agreed to pay him one third of the profits of the job, and also of the sale of goods of the appellants while the work was progressing; and averring that…