Seid Chee v. Sanitary Fish Co.

Citations

• 103 Wash. 345
• 174 P. 443
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1064

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Performance—Actions — Evidence — Admissibility. In an action on a contract to furnish Chinese and Japanese laborers, at specified sums per month, in which the intent of the parties that the contractor pay the laborers was shown by the accounts rendered, it is proper to allow the plaintiff to testify that he had paid the various sums to the laborers.</p> <p>Evidence — Best and Secondary Evidence — Issuance of Corporate Stock. In an action on contract, oral evidence that laborers had been paid by the issuance of corporate stock, is properly excluded on the ground that the books of the company are the best evidence.</p> <p>Contracts — Actions—Defenses—Illegality of Payments — Who May Assert. In an action on contract to furnish and pay laborers for fish canning, the fact that some of the laborers illegally received part of their pay from plaintiff in intoxicating liquors cannot be asserted as a defense; since only the laborers might raise that question.</p>