Rains v. Ballow

The appellee, Ballow, sued the appellant, Rains, before a justice of the peace of Hendricks county. The complaint, in substance, charges that, early in the spring of A. D. 1872, Rains, being the owner of a sawmill, employed Ballow to cut certain lots of timber into saw-logs, at specified rates of compensation, and contracted to lot him, Ballow, do all his other saw-log cutting for the season of 1872, to be paid for at the same rates. Also to furnish him, said Ballow, when not engaged in cutting logs, employment at other work, during the same season, at one dollar and fifty cents per day. That…