Rasmussen v. United States Steel Co.

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, who sued defendant on an alleged contract implied in fact for wages due. Reversed, with costs to appellant.

The facts, stated in a light most favorable to plaintiff, and sufficiently for this decision, may be abstracted as follows:

Plaintiff, non-union fuel and power engineer, worked for defendant on a monthly salary basis from January 1947 to December 1950, when he quit. During that period, aside from pay increases for merit, the un •ion employees, by negotiated contract, received two general pay raises, one in…