Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Roberson
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from District Court of Arapahoe County. This was an action commenced by Roberson, the appellee, against the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, the appellant, to recover $3,000, alleged to be due from the company to Roberson, as its agent on the Pacific coast.
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Appeal from District Court of Arapahoe County. This was an action commenced by Roberson, the appellee, against the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, the appellant, to recover $3,000, alleged to be due from the company to Roberson, as its agent on the Pacific coast. The declaration alleged that the company, in consideration of Roberson becoming its agent at a salary of $3,000 per annum, undertook to employ him in that capacity for a year from October 1st, 1870; that Roberson accepted the employment on those terms and continued in the employment until March 1st, 1871, and averred that he had been…
1Opinion of the CourtHallett, C. J.
Whether appellee was employed for one year or for a shorter time is the principal question presented in this record, and upon that, we think the judgment of the district court cannot be supported.
At the interview between Moffat and appellee in San Francisco, nothing was said about the terms of the employment, and the correspondence by telegraph, after Moffat returned to Denver, appears to have been directed to the matter of compensation to be paid to appellee, and not to the term of service.
Moffat testifies that an officer of the company wanted to know from him what appellee would ask for…
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