Dillon v. Allen

Appeal from Sao Circuit Court. Action to recover for services rendered by plaintiff in threshing the grain of defendant. The defendant in his answer pleaded the following defense: “That it was agreed by and between the plaintiffs and defendant that the threshing, for which plaintiff seeks to recover in this action, was to be done with a machine, all the rods, knuckles or joints of which were unboxed, and that said threshing was in fact done with a -machine the rods and knuckles of which were wholly unboxed.” To this defense a demurrer was interposed by defendant and sustained by the court.…