Godcharles & Co. v. Wigeman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county: Of January Term 1886. No. 196. Assumpsit by Frank Wigeman against Reuben Johnson, C. A. Godcharles, R. A. Bortly, C. Godcharles, S. A. Andrews, William Godcharles and H. M. Taggart, trading and doing business under the firm name of C. A. Godcharles & Companj% to recover wages for labor as a puddler. Pleas, non assumpsit, payment, set-off with leave.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county: Of January Term 1886. No. 196. Assumpsit by Frank Wigeman against Reuben Johnson, C. A. Godcharles, R. A. Bortly, C. Godcharles, S. A. Andrews, William Godcharles and H. M. Taggart, trading and doing business under the firm name of C. A. Godcharles & Companj% to recover wages for labor as a puddler. Pleas, non assumpsit, payment, set-off with leave. The following facts appeared on the trial before Rockefeller, P. J.: The plaintiff was employed as a puddler by the defendants in their nail mill at Milton, Pa. The defendants posted in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The first five assignments of error cannot be sustained. They are in fact but five exceptions to a single ruling of the Court, or what might properly have been embraced in one ruling. The offer, with its variations, was to prove a custom among iron mills, of the character of that owned by the defendants, making the ton 2240 pounds; but the Court held that the custom, if proved, was not good, because opposed to the statute which fixes the legal ton at 2000 pounds, and that the former could not be imposed upon the plaintiff except by proof of a special contract, or of such knowledge by him of…
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