Allen v. New York Central Railroad

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, entered on the pleadings.

The appellant will be referred to herein as the plaintiff and the appellee as the defendant, as the parties appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiff commenced the action against the defendant to recover damages for alleged wrongful discharge from employment and breach of an employment contract.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges, in part, that defendant is a railroad corporation, engaged as a common carrier in the business of transporting freight and passengers; that on or about April 1917,…