Word v. Winder

The plaintiff sues for eighteen hundred dollars, amount of his wages for the year 1858, and obtained judgment accordingly, on the finding of a jury. The defendant, after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a new trial, appealed.

The facts of the case are briefly as follows : The plaintiff acted as the overseer of the defendant in 1857, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars, with certain specified immunities; the defendant, however, reserving to herself the privilege of dis*112charging the plaintiff, at any time, on paying to him his time of service, at the rate of fourteen hundred dollars per…