Patnote v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Vermont
Book account. The auditor to whom the case was referred. reported as follows, viz.: “ The plaintiff presented an account in which he charged to the defendant $78, for 39 days’ work at $2 per day. “The plaintiff on or about the 19th day of June, 1866, made a' contract to labor for the defendant for four months at $25 per month, then following, at the ordinary work performed upon the farm.
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Book account. The auditor to whom the case was referred. reported as follows, viz.: “ The plaintiff presented an account in which he charged to the defendant $78, for 39 days’ work at $2 per day. “The plaintiff on or about the 19th day of June, 1866, made a' contract to labor for the defendant for four months at $25 per month, then following, at the ordinary work performed upon the farm. The plaintiff, who is a Canadian, represented to the defendant that he was ‘ a good hand.’ He also represented that he was ‘ a go'od wood-chopper.’ It was expected by the parties, that the plaintiff was to go…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
It appears that about the 29th of June, 1865, the plaintiff agreed to labor for the defendant for the term of four months thereafter, at the ordinary work performed on the farm, *71with this further understanding that, after the hot weather was over and haying and harvesting done, the plaintiff was to go to work at chopping. After laboring a month and a half, the plaintiff left the defendant’s employ.
The first question is whether the plaintiff left under such circumstances that his leaving operated as a forfeiture of his wages for the time that he…
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