Mueller v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

Stone, Justice.

Action for damages for breach of contract of employment wherein plaintiff, the employe, had a verdict. Defendant employer’s motion for a new trial was denied, but its alternative motion for judg-' ment notwithstanding the verdict granted. Judgment was entered, and plaintiff appeals.

For some time before April 5, 1929, plaintiff was in the employment of defendant as a “yardman” at Appleton, Wisconsin. April 5 he was discharged. His claim is bottomed upon defendant’s alleged breach of a contract, in force at the time, between defendant and other railroads on the one side and the…