Harrison Construction Co. v. Nissen

Plaintiffs in error, who were the unsuccessful plaintiffs in the trial court, brought suit under an oral contract for leveling defendant’s land. They had done some leveling for defendant in 1944 under an earlier oral contract and were paid therefor at the rate of eleven dollars per hour per unit of machinery used. The undisputed evidence is that the 1945 operations, which are the subject matter of this suit, arose out of a conference between plaintiffs and defendant held at the Walsh Hotel in Alamosa on March 20, 1945, in which it was agreed that plaintiffs should do leveling of additional…