Reiss v. Usona Shirt Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Sigmund Reiss, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 12th day of January, 1916, upon a dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case.
1Opinion of the Court
Jerks, P. J.:
The plaintiff sued for damages in that, on March 3,1913, the defendant broke a written contract whereby defendant “hired this plaintiff to work for it ” for the term of three years commencing the 19th day of July, 1911, and agreed to pay him therefor the sum of $60 each and every week for the first year of said agreement, and the sum of $50 each and every week for the remainder of the period. The defendant joined issue by denials, separate defenses and counterclaim.
At trial the plaintiff relied upon a certain provision in an agreement to which he and the defendant were of the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Martin v. New York Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Cuppy v. . Stollwerck BrothersNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
- Douglass v. Merchants' InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Gerard v. CowperthwaitNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1893
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- Wellington Bull & Co. v. MorrisNew York Supreme Court · 1928
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- Hill v. American Co-Operative Ass'nSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1940