Johnson v. Schoenfield
Johnson v. Schoenfield
Opinion of the Court
Only issues of fact are involved in this suit, which is one for recovery of the unpaid balance of the contract price for work and labor furnished under a verbal agreement by which plaintiff obligated himself to cut and clear certain land belonging to defendant.
■ Plaintiff alleges that he was employed by defendant to do this work at the agreed price of $40.00 per hundred running feet, and that he completed the work as contracted for, by clearing the land in question to a depth of eight hundred and forty feet. The total amount due him for the work on the basis mentioned is the sum of $360.00 of which amount he has been paid on account $225.00 leaving a balance now due of $105.00.
Defendant admits the contract at the price mentioned, and that $250.00 has -been paid on account, but denies liability for the balance claimed, upon the special defense that plaintiff has never burned the'stumps, nor removed the rubbish on his land, and that plaintiff had agreed to also make a farm or garden on the land when cleared, but that he has failed so to do.
After the trial judge, accompanied by litigants and counsel in this case, had inspected the land and examined the work done under the contract, there was judg
Plaintiff has not appealed nor answered the appeal. The judgment, in all respects, seems to be correct. It should therefore be affirmed.
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