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HAGGARD v. CALHOUN

No. 36984.

294 P.2d 836 (1956)

Ernest HAGGARD, doing business under the trade name of Haggard Lumber Company and Great Northern Life Insurance Company and Washington National Insurance Company, Plaintiffs in Error, v. H.J. CALHOUN, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Johnson, Tomerlin & High, Oklahoma City, for plaintiffs in error.

Claud Briggs, W. Ryan Russell, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error.

HALLEY, Justice.

In 1945, Ernest Haggard, doing business as Haggard Lumber Company, operated a small portable sawmill in Bryan County. About the 9th of August of that year, he employed H.J. Calhoun to assist with a team in loading logs on a truck and agreed to pay him $5 per day. Mr. Calhoun was an elderly man, unable to read and write, except to sign his name.

Mr. Haggard testified that he was not able to pay for...

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