Robinson v. Cutter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover damages for breach of an agreement to hire the plaintiff as a carriage wood-worker. Trial in the Superior Court, before Sheldon, J., who, after a verdict for the plaintiff, allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Contract, to recover damages for breach of an agreement to hire the plaintiff as a carriage wood-worker. Trial in the Superior Court, before Sheldon, J., who, after a verdict for the plaintiff, allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. It was admitted that the plaintiff had worked a few weeks under the written contract, which was that the defendant agreed to pay the plaintiff, “for services which he may render as a carriage wood-worker, the amount of thirty cents for each and every hour, with full time for one year ” from its date, July 6, 1891; and that subsequently the…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The defendant having put in evidence what purported to be a letter to himself, signed by the plaintiff, and having asserted that this was all of the letter which he received at that time,.though at other times he had received other letters from the plaintiff, it was proper for the court to allow the plaintiff to show that the paper produced did not contain the whole of the letter as written, and that something material had been cut off from the top. In was not necessary for the plaintiff to give notice to produce other letters.
The court might properly allow the plaintiff to testify that at.…
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