Hyde v. Bledsoe
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Bourbon Distriot Court. Bledsoe sued Hyde for “ work and labor done and performed by said plaintiff for the defendant, and at defendant’s .instance and request.”
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Error from Bourbon Distriot Court. Bledsoe sued Hyde for “ work and labor done and performed by said plaintiff for the defendant, and at defendant’s .instance and request.” Hyde answered that the work and labor sued for “was done for the United States, in mowing grass in the National Cemetery at Fort Scott; that said Hyde was the duly-appointed superintendent of said cemetery, and in the management thereof, and in making said contract with plaintiff, said Hyde acted solely as agent for the United .States, which facts were well known to plaintiff at the time ■of his employment.” • The case was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
The plaintiff in error was the superintendent of the National Cemetery at Fort Scott. Through ¡an agent of his, (one A. Chaplin,) he employed Isaac H. *400Bledsoe, defendant in error, to do some mowing, etc., on said cemetery. The work was done,- and Bledsoe received from Hyde $14 therefor, and then sued Hyde for $46 more. The case was commenced in a justice’s court. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, and defendant appealed to the district court, where judgment was again given for plaintiff', for ten dollars—and defendant brings the…
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