74 Iowa 34 | Iowa | 1888
The plaintiff seeks to recover, for work and labor performed for the defendant under an express and implied contract. The jury found for the defendant as to the express contract. So far as material to the plaintiff ’ s recovery on the implied contract, the facts are that the plaintiff worked and labored for the defendant for several years as a farm-hand, and he claims he is entitled to recover what his services are reasonably worth. He commenced working for the defendant-in 1880, when he was eighteen years of age, and so continued in such employment until 1886. During this time, his home was at the defendant’s, and he received “good and sufficient clothing, medicine and doctor’s attendance when required, and sufficient spending money for his wants.” The evidence fails to show what the services performed were worth, but there is evidence tending to show what the plaintiff did, and the value of, or price paid for, farm-hands during at least a portion of the time plaintiff worked for defendant.
Reversed.