Shumate v. Farlow

— The only question for decision involves the *360propriety of the ruling of the court in sustaining a demurrer to a complaint in which the appellant charged, in substance, that he entered into a contract with the appellee, Far-low, on the 10th day of November, 1887, whereby the latter agreed that if the former would move on his, the defendant’s, farm and work for him that he would pay him a certain stipulated sum per month, commencing on the 1st day of March then next ensuing, to continue for the period of nine months from March 1st, 1888. The plaintiff avers that he moved on the defendant’s…