Fritts v. Quinton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff sued the defendant for the value of his services for four months. The services were performed pursuant to a contract in which plaintiff had undertaken the task of working, managing and running defendant’s hog farm for a share of the proceeds of the sales of all pigs bred and grown under plaintiff’s care. Other considerations passing to plaintiff were the use of the farm house, a garden, half the chickens and eggs produced from defendant’s poultry on the farm, feed for this poultry, and pasture and keep for plaintiff’s cow.

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