Ressig v. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Company, from a determination of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of January, 1918, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Fourth District, in plaintiff’s favor rendered at a trial before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The record contains no complaint, either in writing or oral; but it contains a bill of particulars showing that plaintiff claimed to have been employed by defendant at seventy-five dollars per month, and that the action was brought to recover seventy-nine dollars and twenty-five cents for wages. The defendant pleaded that the contract of employment was in writing and was for a hiring from month to month terminable by plaintiff only at the end of any month by eight days’ previous notice in writing, and that he agreed, among other things, that he would not participate, either…
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