Aaron v. Moore
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Law Commissioner’s Court. A servant employed by the year, at fixed wages, cannot recover anything for his wages if he quits without cause before the expiration of the year. (Schnerr v. Lemp, 19 Mo. 40; Posey v. Garth, 7 Mo. 94 ; Littell v. Mercer, 9 Mo. 218; Dickson v. Caldwell, 26 Mo. 60.)
1Opinion of the Court
Bay, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court..
This suit was brought; before a justice of the peace, on an account for work and labor, where plaintiff obtained judgment for the sum of fifty-five dollars, from which defendant took an appeal to the Law Commissioner’s Court, where plaintiff again recovered judgment for the sum of sixty dollars, and from this judgment defendant appeals to this court.
The defendant filed a counter-claim, and set up as a further defence that he hired the plaintiff for a year, and that plaintiff left his service before the end of the year without reasonable cause.
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