Johnson v. United States Steel Corp.

The plaintiff’s amended declaration is in five counts. The first, second, third, and fifth in so far as they are the same, allege the following: The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a turn superintendent. The defendant discharged the plaintiff when he was sixty-three years of age, without cause, in violation of G. L. c. 149, § 24A (inserted by St. 1937, c. 367, § 2). This was done with the intention of depriving the plaintiff of certain benefits. At the time of the discharge there was work available for the plaintiff and he was capable of performing it.

Counts 1, 2, 3, and 5 differ…