Mullen v. Walker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Campbell, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of non-suit.

Appellant, through a newspaper advertisement of respondents, who were flour merchants, sought employment with them. He had been regularly employed until May 2d-or 3d, 1926, when he lost his position. On May 4th, because of the advertisement of respondents, he applied to them for work, and was informed that such work as they then had to offer him was not permanent, but consisted in unloading one carload of flour from the car to their warehouse.

This employment he accepted and worked that day from…