Clarkson

This is an action to recover the amount due on a promissory note for $1,969, given by defendant to plaintiff, and dated “Lakeview, Or., May 25, 1888.”

The material parts of the answer are as follows: It is alleged that in 1880 defendant was a resident in Siskiyou county, California, and was the owner of two fully equipped stock ranches in Lake county, Oregon, and also of a large number of cattle, horses, mares and mules, and was then engaged in the business of stock-raising in that county and state; that in September, 1880, he employed the plaintiff, at an agreed salary of $40 per month, to take the sole care, management and control of all said real and personal property in Oregon, as the agent of defendant, and in his name and for his benefit to conduct the business of raising, caring for, and managing the stock of cattle, horses, and mules aforesaid, and to preserve and keep in good repair the said ranches, machinery, and all appliances used in said business, to purchase all necessary supplies and hire all necessary labor that should be required in conducting the said business, and to market, from time to time, as the same should become salable, said cattle, horses, and mules;…