Shun v. Hospital Benefit Association

LESHER, Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment for the defendants in an action for breach of an alleged contract of employment. Presentation of the claim to the trial court involved a plethora of pleadings, motions and orders, many of which are of no consequence in our disposition of the case and will therefore not be referred to.

The complaint stated three different claims: the first, for wages due between 1953 and 1956 under an express written contract; the second, alternatively to as first, for wages due on the basis of an oral agreement over that same time period; and the third, to recover…