O'Connor v. Hayes Body Corp.

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover for services as an efficiency expert under a special contract at the rate of $300 per month, from May 2, 1927, to February 1, 1930, the amount claimed unpaid being $2,767.03. Upon trial, by jury, plaintiff had verdict and judgment.

The defense was no fixed period of employment as an efficiency expert, and such employment ende'd when the factory was closed on December 15, 1927, that on December 20, 1927, plaintiff was hired as a day watchman at 45 cents per hour and received pay at that rate to March 1, 1928; that on March 15, 1928, the factory re-opened…