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Dakota Datebook: Hired Hand's Contract Case and Dr. E. M. Darrow

Hired Hand’s Contract Case

by Jayme L Lob

Jan. 15, 2019 — A strange court case was reported from Fargo on this day in 1904. J. H. Hanson, a hired farm hand, filed a lawsuit against his employer, Mrs. Eliza A. Francis. Hanson claimed that Francis had cheated him out of a contract, and five months worth of pay; Francis contended that the man was a lazy scoundrel that had refused to leave her farm af...