O'Connor v. Briggs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for $1,000 alleged to be due the plaintiff for salary as salesman of the defendants for one year beginning January 5, 1899. Writ dated March 14, 1900. In the Superior Court Mason, C. J. ordered a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is an action of contract to recover for personal services as salesman for the defendants. The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff had been employed by the defendants at a yearly salary of a thousand dollars for the year ending January 4, 1899, and this suit is brought to recover for ^ services under an alleged renewal of the contract for one year ending January 4,1900.
In December, 1898, the plaintiff met with an accident which rendered him entirely incapable of performing the services called for by the contract. He went to a hospital where he remained more than seven weeks. There…
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