Lyle v. Gray
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from-Adair District Court. Action for labor done by plaintiff for defendant, at his request, which is alleged to be of the reasonable value of §896. The answer of defendant denies the allegations of the plaintiff’s petition, and avers that plaintiff is a married woman, and defendant employed her husband to take charge of and work a farm owned by defendant; that plaintiff performed the duties of a wife and mother in the family of her husband, while he was so employed,…
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Appeal from-Adair District Court. Action for labor done by plaintiff for defendant, at his request, which is alleged to be of the reasonable value of §896. The answer of defendant denies the allegations of the plaintiff’s petition, and avers that plaintiff is a married woman, and defendant employed her husband to take charge of and work a farm owned by defendant; that plaintiff performed the duties of a wife and mother in the family of her husband, while he was so employed, and she performed no labor for defendant. The answer also sets up a counter-claim, but its averments, upon that branch…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
i services: vvYfo’:'empVoy^ ment of wife, The issues presented by the pleadings, and upon which the case was tried, involved the question whether the performed by the plaintiff* was for defendant un(lei* an employment, cither express or implied, or whether she performed the labor for her husband, he being expressly employed by defendant to manage and conduct a farm. The plaintiff* relied upon the view of the *154case first stated, and tlie defendant insisted upon the last one. There was evidence introduced tending to support each party’s theory of facts of the case. There was also evidence…
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