97 Iowa 689 | Iowa | 1896
I. Plaintiff alleged that he entered into defendant’s employment on July 80, 1892, at the agreed price of fifty dollars per month, to take care of and track horses, and such work as is required in caring for stallions, brood mares, and trotting horses, and continued in said employment until July 17,1893; that he had been paid three hundred and seventy-three dollars; that the agreement for the fifty dollars per month was until January 1, 1893, and nothing further was said as to wages; that plaintiff’s services were reasonably worth fifty dollars per month for the' time after January 1,1893, and there is two hundred and four dollars and forty cents due him. Defendant answered, admitting that plaintiff’s wages should be fifty dollars per month to January 1,1893, and averring that at said time it was agreed that plaintiff’s wages should thereafter be forty-five dollars per month. In a counter-claim he alleged: That plaintiff was employed in his (defendant’s) stables while the defendant was engaged in the business of standing blooded stallions. That he had appointed plaintiff his general superintendent, to, in his (defendant’s) absence in Europe, have care of breeding said stallions according, to the wishes of defendant’s patrons. “That at said time defendant had in his stable, and under plaintiff’s control, a stallion called ‘Manchester C,’ to which one I; L. Potter, a patron of defendant, was desirous of breeding mares, and placed said mares in defendant’s stable, in the care and control of plaintiff, with the express understanding, as plaintiff well knew, that said mares were to be bred to said stallion,but that plaintiff betrayed the trust confided in him, and willfully, wantonly and maliciously bred one of said mares to another