Hand v. Clearfield Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 178 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 815 June Term 1888, C. P. On June 24,1888, Elmer E. Hand brought assumpsit against the Clearfield Consolidated Coal Company, a corporation. Issue.
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No. 178 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 815 June Term 1888, C. P. On June 24,1888, Elmer E. Hand brought assumpsit against the Clearfield Consolidated Coal Company, a corporation. Issue. At the trial on October 13, 1890, the plaintiff adduced testimony to show that he first entered the service of the defendant company temporarily on November 1, 1887, in the office of Samuel P. Langdon, the president of the company; that in January, 1888, he was about to take employment elsewhere, when he was told by Mr. Langdon to let the matter rest for the present; that a few days afterward he…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice McCollum:
The negotiations which resulted in the employment of Hand were with Langdon, who was the president of the appellant company, and they related to a service of one year, and the compensation to be paid for it. It appears by the undisputed testimony that it was agreed that Hand should serve the company one year from the first day of February, 1888, for one thousand eight hundred dollars, and in such capacity as it might designate. There is no denial in the evidence that Langdon was authorized to make this agreement, and there is no suggestion that he deceived the…
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