Case Name: Thomas R. Clark v. Frederick Fensky
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1866-01
Citations: 3 Kan. 389
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thomas R. Clark v. Frederick Fensky.
Judges: All the justices concurring.
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 389–390

Head Matter:
Thomas R. Clark v. Frederick Fensky.
Error from Leavenworth County.
The decision in Meagher v. Morgan, (ante p. 312,) that pleading the “ common counts ’ ’ is, in absence of a motion to make the pleading more specific, a sufficient setting up of a counter claim, sustained.
It is no defense to an action for day wages, that the work was unskillfully done.
The facts in this case were substantially similar to those in Meagher v. Morgan, but the decision was the reverse on the motion for a new trial.
W. P. Cambell, for plaintiff in error.
Wheat, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Salford, J.
The first question presented in this case is practically the same as that decided by the court in Meagher v. Morgan, to which case reference may be had. Other alleged errors are pointed out in the record, but are not insisted upon. We will, however, say, in reference to one point' made, that it is no defense to an action for day wages, that the work done by the plaintiff was unskillfully done. If the work was in fact so done, the party injured thereby could have a full and complete remedy by discharging his employee. Such being the case, neither reason nor justice would allow the employer to retain the services of one employed by the day or week, and then claim when wages were demanded that the work performed for him had been improperly or nnskillfully done. The judgment of the District Court must be affirmed.
All the justices concurring.