Ober v. Saxe

Estes, P. J.,

In this case the trial court made the following findings of fact :

‘1 This is an action of contract. The plaintiff is a house-painter and was engaged by the defendants to redecorate a single house owned by the Esther Saxe, which was being re*333modeled into a two-family house. The defendant, Edward Saxe, gave the house to his wife. The parties did not execute a written contract; being friends, the defendant accepted the offer of the plaintiff to do the work by day labor at cost. The work was done in the ‘off season’, that is December to January. The plaintiff did the work as agreed…