Raysor v. Berkeley County Railway & Lumber Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice McGowan,

Plaintiff was employed by defendant at a salary of $100 a month. Prior to January, 1886, he demanded of the superintendent an increase of $25 a month, after January, or he would leave. The superintendent promised an answer in a few days, but did not answer for several months, when he informed plaintiff that his salary had been increased to $125 a month from May 1. This was an action to recover $75 — from February 1 to May 1 — the balance of salary having been paid. The claim was sustained by the trial justice, and by Judge Witherspoon on appeal to the Circuit…