Case Name: JOHN FLANIGAN, Respondent, v. J. T. DAVIS, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1875-01-07
Citations: 1 Cal. Unrep. 876
Docket Number: No. 3927
Parties: JOHN FLANIGAN, Respondent, v. J. T. DAVIS, Appellant.
Judges: We concur: Crockett, J.; McKinstry, J.
Reporter: California Unreported Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 876–877

Head Matter:
JOHN FLANIGAN, Respondent, v. J. T. DAVIS, Appellant.
No. 3927;
January 7, 1875.
Work and Labor — Action to Recover for — Appeal.—A finding of the court below on evidence substantially conflicting in an action to recover the value of services rendered will not be interfered with on appeal.
APPEAL from Fifth Judicial District, Stanislaus County.
A. Hewell for respondent; H. A. Gehr, F. J. Baldwin and J. IT. Budd for appellant.

Opinion:
RHODES. J.
— Action to recover the value of services rendered by the plaintiff, at the instance and request of the defendant, in feeding a threshing machine. There is no question as to the performance of the services and their value. But upon the issue as to whether the services were performed at the instance and request of the defendant or of B. J. Smith, the evidence is contradictory, and in the clearest sense conflicting. The court below gave the greater credit to the statements of the plaintiff and ordered judgment in his favor.
If the services were in fact rendered at the instance and request of the defendant, and the court found that the defendant did hire the plaintiff to perform the services, then the liability of the defendant is primary, and there is no room for the question as to whether there was a sufficient compliance with the statute of frauds to hold the defendant liable for the debt of B. J. Smith.
Judgment and order affirmed. Remittitur forthwith.
We concur: Crockett, J.; McKinstry, J.