Haney v. Caldwell

Rattle, Special Judge.

The plaintiff, John K. Haney, in substance, states, in his complaint, that the defendant, Josiah Caldwell, on the twenty-first day of December,. 1871, by letter, employed him to act as his engineer in connection with his contract for the completion of the Little Bock and Fort Smith railroad, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; that plaintiff accepted said employment and served defendant as such engineer-in and about said contract for one year and one month from the date of such employment; and that by reason thereof defendant became indebted to him in…