Palumbo v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

Appellant was the proprietor of a restaurant in Philadelphia during-1937 and 1938 and until September, 1939. In September, 1937, he entered into a written contract with Bobby Morro, a musician, by which the latter agreed to furnish “leader and five musicians” as their agent to perform at appellant’s restaurant six hours per night, six nights per week, for twenty-five weeks for the sum of $231.25 per week. A contract almost identical in its terms was executed by the same parties in September, 1938, for a period of twenty-six weeks. The contracts were subject to the rules…