Perlman v. Skolnick Building Corp.

In this action Morris Perlman, an engineer for the Skolnick Building Corporation engaged in the construction of Federal Housing Project, Me., 17038 at South Portland, Maine, recovered a verdict and the defendant corporation brings forward its general motion for a new trial.

The plaintiff was employed in New York on October 3, 1942 for an indeterminate period at an agreed wage of $100 a week for two weeks and $125 a week thereafter and on a forty-eight hour weekly basis with time and one-half for overtime, arrived in South Portland three days later and worked until June 9, 1943 when he was…