Silverstein v. Lehrfeld

Prokop v. Bedford Waist & Dress Co., Inc. (105 Misc. 573, affd. 187 App. Div. 662) may seem to sanction the plaintiff’s position but it really does not. That case estab*292lishes only that an oral contract for a year’s hiring commencing either the day of the hiring or the. following day is valid. But here the question is whether an oral agreement for one year made on a Saturday to commence the following Monday is valid. No calendar date for termination was fixed (it rarely is); and if that was the agreement then the term was to begin not the day after it was made but two days after. For the fact…