Decamp v. Hewitt

The defendants have appealed from a judgment which condemns them’to pay to the plaintiff $1,057 85. This sum is claimed on the allegation that on or about the 8th of January, 1844, the defendants engaged the services of the plaintiff as a salesman in their commercial house, for the term of one year from that time, at a salary of $1200 a year; that on or about the 12th of March following, the defendants discharged him from their employment without any just cause, and refused to pay him the aforesaid salary for one year, in violation of their contract, although the petitioner tendered to them…