When a minor repudiates his contract to work for two years, after working five months and being paid for four months, he can recover no more than is equitably due. What he received is deducted from the value of his work.
DOE, C. J.
On a quantum meruit the plaintiff demands what he is justly entitled to. The contract which he repudiated, and on which four payments had been made, was an entire one for two years' work. He can recover no more than is equitably due; and equity considers the whole transaction, including the fact that during the first four months he received more than he earned. The question of justice is not limited to a month, or to the damages for which the defendants can maintain an action against him. The law of the case is no more inconsistent with moral right than his contractual disability requires. Hall v. Butterfield, 59 N.H. 354; Bartlett v. Bailey, 59 N.H. 408.
Judgment for the plaintiff for $16.
STANLEY, J., did not sit: the others concurred.