Stewart v. Blackwood Electric Steel Corp.

Lively, President:

Claiming a contract of employment as superintendent of defendant’s pattern shop, carpenter shop and inspection department in its steel plant, plaintiff obtained a verdict of $4,-172.50 for breach thereof in an action of assumpsit. On his motion $735.00 was remitted and judgment was entered for $3,437.50, and defendant prosecutes this writ of error to that judgment.

Defendant was establishing and organizing its plant for the purpose of manufacturing high grade electric furnace steel eastings near the City of Parkersburg in the early part of 1923, and plaintiff was engaged in a…