Wieseman v. Kienstra, Inc.

“If the hiring be general, without any particular time limited, the law construes it to be a hiring for a year; upon a principle of natural equity, that the servant shall serve, and the master maintain him, throughout all the revolutions of the respective seasons, as well when there is work to be done as when there is not.” 1 Blackstone, Commentaries on The Laws of England 425 (Garland Publishing, Inc. 1978) (reprint of the 1783 ed. printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, and D. Prince, Oxford).

“With us the rule is inflexible, that a general or indefinite hiring is prima facie a hiring…