Imhoff v. House

This action was brought by .defendant in error against Frank I. Foss and J. J. Imhoff. There was no service of summons upon Foss, and upon a trial to a jury a verdict was rendered against Imhoff alone for $800. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled, and judgment was rendered against him for the amount assessed by the jury, with costs of suit.

The cause of action set up in the petition was not estabr lished on the trial. It is charged in the petition substantially that House is a civil engineer and was employed by Foss and Imhoff in 1887 to make a survey of the Lincoln Belt Line…