Wilderman v. Roth

THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiff sued to recover upon a contract of hiring for domestic service in the farmhouse of the defendants near Reading, in Berks county, under which she was employed during a period of eight months, with no express agreement for the amount of wages to be paid. In her statement of claim, she alleged that her services were reasonably worth $5,000. At the trial she relied upon the testimony of a witness connected with an employment agency, whose testimony tended to show that the rate of wages for the service the plaintiff rendered, varied between a minimum ot' $50…