Macauley v. Press Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Press Publishing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 19th day of April, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 24th day of April, 1915, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is an action by a servant against his master for damages for an unlawful discharge.
Plaintiff is a professional cartoonist and was in the employ of defendant for a number of years, his salary having been increased from time to time until at the end it had grown to $250 a week. He was employed under a written contract which by its terms would have expired on January 1, 1915. He was discharged on January 17, 1914, and the judgment appealed from awards him as damages practically the entire salary for the unexpired term of his contract, less some small sums that it appeared he had…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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