Hub Machine, Welding & Contracting Co v. Loux
Hub Machine, Welding & Contracting Co v. Loux
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The plaintiff established a prima facie case by its book account to which the defendants replied. A part of the defense related to the time consumed by the plaintiff’s employees in performing the work compensation for which comprised a large part of the claim. In rebuttal
The second and third assignments which relate to the charge of the court are not sustained. Taking the charge as a whole it presented the case fairly to the jury. The question was one of fact purely and .the jury was given uncontrolled opportunity to render a verdict according to the facts as they might find them.
Judgment affirmed.
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- Evidence — Compensation for employees’ time — Time slips — Oral evidence. In an action of assumpsit on a book account for repairs to automobile trucks, where the defendants offer evidence that the time charged in the book account for the repairs was excessive,. the plaintiff may be permitted to offer in evidence time slips made by the workmen soon after the daily work was done, and show that such slips were signed by the respective workmen, examined and approved by the foreman, and that the time stated in the slips was actually consumed in the execution of the work.