Donald v. Faulds

Defendants own and reside on a farm with lake frontage near Howell, in Livingston county, rent boats and cottages, raise chickens, run two orchards, conduct farming operations. In 1937 they advertised for a tenant, an experienced chicken-raiser, to help with the work. Plaintiffs, residents of Detroit, answered the advertisement, and claim that an oral agreement was entered into whereby they were to be either tenants or employees, were to move onto the farm, that defendants were to furnish the entire stock, tools, equipment, give plaintiffs and their 19-year-old son board and room until a…