Stevenson v. Magill
North Dakota Supreme Court
Judgment for foreclosure directed. Appeal from District Court of Eansom County, Allen, Judge, dismissing this action. The object of the statute in question is to secure workers in their rightful wages, and such statutes are liberally construed. Sutherland, Stat. Constr. § 409; Lowe v. Abrahamson, 18 N. D. 182, 19 L.R.A.(N.S.) 1039, 119 N. W. 241, 20 Ann.
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Judgment for foreclosure directed. Appeal from District Court of Eansom County, Allen, Judge, dismissing this action. The object of the statute in question is to secure workers in their rightful wages, and such statutes are liberally construed. Sutherland, Stat. Constr. § 409; Lowe v. Abrahamson, 18 N. D. 182, 19 L.R.A.(N.S.) 1039, 119 N. W. 241, 20 Ann. Cas. 355; Ileddan v. Walden Farmers Elevator Co. 31 N. D. 392, 153 N. W. 1015. A farm laborer is one who labors upon a farm in helping to raise the crops and doing other general farm work; one who does cooking in a cook car for a threshing…
1Opinion of the CourtGoss, J.
This action is brought to foreclose a farm laborer’s lien. Plaintiff, a woman, performed labor as a cook in a cook car in threshing Magill’s grain in September and October, 1915. The trial court dismissed the case, from which judgment plaintiff appeals, demanding a trial de novo. The proof discloses that in the fall of 1915 Magill had about 20,000 bushels of grain to be threshed. He owned his own thresh*578ing rig. He entered into an indefinite oral understanding with one A. J. Kelly under which, to put it in Magill’s own language, “Kelly was to have the machine when he completed threshing” for…
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- Lowe v. AbrahamsonNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1908
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