Friemel v. Crouch

STOKES, Justice.

This suit was instituted by the appellee, W. W. Crouch, against the appellant, Fritz Friemel, to recover the alleged unpaid portion of appellee’s wages as a farm hand for the year beginning July 1, 1943 and terminating July 1, 1944. Appellee alleged that under a contract of hire appellant agreed to pay him $75 in cash each month and as additional compensation he was to receive two acres of wheat for each of the twelve months he worked for appellant, and also 15 acres of the row crop raised on appellant’s farm. He alleged that the wheat was to be delivered to him in an elevator…