Lumaghi v. Neuber

Citations

• 67 Ill. 250

Syllabus

<p>Contract—services—promise to pay—employee of contractor. The defendant employed a party to sink a shaft for him, and such other party employed the plaintiff as a laborer to assist. Afterwards the defendant, who was furnished with the account of the time, promised the plaintiff to pay him his wages, paid him a portion, and wrote an order on himself for the whole amount for the contractor to sign, which was afterwards done: Held, that the defendant was clearly liable to the plaintiff on his promise, and that it was his duty to retain such amount from the contractor on a settlement with him, whether such order was signed or not.</p>