Roberts v. I-T-E Circuit Breaker Co.

NEVILLE, District Judge.

Plaintiff has moved the court for an order permitting him to perfect an appeal in forma pauperis and requiring that he be furnished at government expense a transcript of the trial proceedings, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. The action is one for breach of an alleged employment contract and was tried and submitted to a jury which returned a verdict for the defendant. The trial consumed five days.

Plaintiff had been employed for approximately ten years at the Minneapolis office of the defendant, most of the time as district manager. His earnings in the last several years…