Adams

An examination of the record shows justification for the following statement of facts made by respondent: “Plaintiff and his wife were hired by the defendant to work upon the latter’s farm in Lassen County, the plaintiff to do general farm work, and his wife to do housework. They commenced work under this employment April 8, 1909, and continued, with some intervals of lost time, until September 21, 1911. The agreed wages for Mrs. Adams were fifteen dollars per month, or fifty cents per day, at all times except during haying and harvesting, when she was to have thirty dollars per month, or one dollar per day. There is some conflict as to plaintiff’s ordinary wages; he says the agreement was forty dollars per month while defendant asserts the wages were to be thirty-five dollars per month. But there is no dispute that his pay was to be two dollars per day during haying and two dollars and fifty cents per day during harvest. In October, 1911, after the termination of the employment, the parties attempted to settle at the defendant’s farm; but they could not agree as to the state of their accounts, and at the suggestion of the defendant they went, on October 23, 1911, to Bieber’s…