Shear Co. v. Harrington.

H. P. Harrington, appellee herein, brought this suit in the district court to recover from the Shear Company, appellant herein, the sum of $1,140, claimed to be due on contract alleged to exist between him and said company The parties will be designated as in the trial court.

Plaintiff, at the time the contract sued on was entered into, was a man about 76 years of age. About 2 years before he had had one of his legs amputated. He had been at the time in the employ of defendant more than 20 years. He was then serving as shipping clerk at defendant’s branch house at Hillsboro. Some time in…