Hughey v. Robert Beech Associates

CERCONE, Judge:

This appeal is taken from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Civil Division, sitting en banc, dismissing plaintiff’s exceptions to a non-jury verdict for defendant and entering judgment on that verdict.

*9Plaintiff-appellant, Charles Hughey, contacted defendantappellee, Beech Employment Agency, in May of 1973 in response to an advertisement for a “fee paid” job opportunity — that is, one in which the employer agreed to pay the employment agency’s fee. Beech sent appellant to the employer, Thrift Drug Company, which employed him at a starting salary of…