Cade v. City of Belington

Lynch, Judge:

By this writ to a judgment pronounced by the circuit court upon a verdict directed for defendant in an action brought before a justice to recover the value of services rendered by plaintiff in guarding smallpox patients resident within the defendant city, it is only necessary to say whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain a verdict for plaintiff, had one been rendered in his favor.

There was no order of the city council and no express contract authorized by the council or by its positive direction employing plaintiff to perform the services for which he *614sues. He was engaged…