Griggs v. Swift
Supreme Court of Georgia
Contracts. Partnership. Master and servant. Non-suit. Before Judge Smith. Muscogee superior court. May term, 1888. Griggs sued Geo. P. Swift, surviving partner of Geo.
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Contracts. Partnership. Master and servant. Non-suit. Before Judge Smith. Muscogee superior court. May term, 1888. Griggs sued Geo. P. Swift, surviving partner of Geo. P. Swift & Son, on an account for salary which he alleged to be due him from January 1st to July 25th, 1887, and also for board for the same period, under a parol contract of employment for the year from September 1st, 1886, to September 1st, 1887, from which' employment he was discharged in January, 1887, without fault on his part. Defendant pleaded not indebted; also that the contract upon which the suit was founded was a…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The facts are stated in the official report. The hiring was by the partnership, for the term of one year from September 1st, 1886, at $50 per month besides board. One of the two partners of which the firm consisted died in November, and the survivor discharged the plaintiff on the first of January. The plaintiff could obtain no other employment until the following July; and, after the year expired for which he was hired by the partnership, he brought this action, claiming the agreed compensation from the 1st of January, the time of his discharge, up to the date in July…
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