Keener v. Eagle Lake Land & Irrigation Co.

The plaintiff under an employment by the defendant performed labor upon certain reservoirs, dams, and ditches belonging to the defendant, at different times between May 27, 1892, and June 23, 1893, amounting in the aggregate, according to the agreed rate of compensation, to the sum of eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, of which he was paid the sum of three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-two cents. He brings this action to recover from the defendant the balance thereof, viz., four hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents, and to have that…