Dusis

The action is for the recovery of the total sum of $1,489.85, alleged to be the balance due plaintiff for personal services, alleged to have been performed, and moneys advanced and expended by plaintiff for defendants “at their special instance and request.”

The facts, taken in part from plaintiff’s testimony, generally stated, are: That the three defendants and one Eron, in the year 1920, jointly owned a band of some 1500 head of sheep which they were keeping and pasturing on a track of leased grazing land in Yolo County. In June, 1920, they employed plaintiff to herd and take care of said sheep, at a monthly wage or salary of $100 per month. Plaintiff worked for the four defendants from the twenty-sixth day of June, 1920, until about the twenty-sixth day of October, 1920, at which time or thereabouts defendants divided the sheep between themselves. Immediately after such division was made and the defendants were no longer jointly interested in the sheep business, appellant, who was then residing in the city of Marysville and consequently not stopping at the sheep ranch, engaged plaintiff to continue to take care of his (appellant’s) sheep and to take charge of the sheep camp,…