Middlebrook v. Slocum

This suit was begun by plaintiff before a justice of the peace in Ionia county. Defendant appealed to the circuit court from a judgment of $300 rendered in favor of plaintiff. From a judgment of like amount rendered in the circuit court, upon a verdict of a jury, the defendant upon a writ of error brings the case to this court for review. Plaintiff’s claim is for work and labqr which he alleges was performed in defendant’s mill under an express contract at the rate of $3 per week and board, which he says was later increased to $4 per week and board. This board, he claims, included also the…