Ellis v. Sharp
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from an order and judgment overruling a demurrer to a complaint entered in Onondaga county. The action was brought to recover wages alleged to be due to tbe plaintiff, as a teacher, at forty dollars per month, for three months, $120.
1Opinion of the Court
Hardin, P. J.:
Plaintiff’s complaint alleges that defendant was elected a trustee of the school district named, and being authorized and empowered by law, he employed the plaintiff to teach the school in said district, at a salary of forty dollars per month, for a term of three months, which employment and the terms thereof were accepted by the plaintiff. Then he alleges “ that pursuant to said employment by the defendant, as trustee as aforesaid, the plaintiff entered upon the same, and taught the school in said district for the said period of three months, which term ended on or about the…
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