Lange v. Baker

STONE, Judge.

In this court-tried action at law, plaintiff J. E. Lange, an osteopathic physician, sought and obtained judgment in the principal sum of $1,710.50 against defendant Tom F. Baker for professional services alleged to have been rendered during 1956, at defendant’s special instance and request, to Mexican laborers (referred to as braceros) on Trailback Plantation near Essex in Stoddard County, Missouri. Defendant appeals.

At the trial, defendant described himself as “a farmer and a businessman and officer of several corporations.” Under his guiding hand, Trailback Plantation engaged…