McGee v. Wilson Fisheries Co.

Practically the only question in this case is the value of the services of the plaintiff while engaged as superintendent of a fish cannery belonging to the defendants and located at Fort Walter, Alaska. The court, trying the case without a jury, awarded the plaintiff compensation at the rate of $250 a month, and entered judgment against the defendants on that basis.

The chief error assigned by the appellants is the admission of testimony concerning the value of respondent’s services. Witnesses were permitted to testify what compensation had been paid in recent years to superintendents of other…