Cohen v. Goldstein
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from City Court of New York, Trial Term. Action by Samuel Cohen against Samuel Goldstein. From a judgment of the City Court of the City of New York, dismissing the complaint at the close of plaintiff’s case, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
The action is for damages for breach of an alleged contract of employment for one year. Plaintiff claims that on the 26th day of February, 1910, he was employed to act as a foreman at $20 per week for one year by one Frank Goldstein, a brother of the defendant and in his employ. All the evidence tending to show the contract of employment was excluded, until plaintiff showed Frank Goldstein’s authority. There was read in evidence a portion of the defendant’s examination before trial, in which he had testified:
“My brother has the absolute right to employ men from week to week. Some men I do…
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