Nash v. . Southwick
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before Bryan, J., and a jury, at August, 1896, Term of Buncombe Superior Court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. There was a verdict for $267.96 in favor of the plaintiff, and from the judgment thereon defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
MONTGOMERY, J.:
Southwick, the lessee of the property known as Hotel Berkley, in the City of Asheville, was, in the fall of 1893, engaged in having the property repaired and remodeled, and employed the plaintiff, according to his testimony, as his general clerk and bookkeeper, and further, id witness’s own language, the plaintiff was “to make himself generally useful during such reconstruction of the Hotel Berkley” at the fixed salary of $80 per month.. The plaintiff was, by the contract, to be at the hotel all the time. It was agreed between Southwick and the plaintiff that, when the repairs…
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