Mayer v. Townsend

The nondescript writing signed by the departed Goldsmith is not the agreement under which the defendants were employed, because $107.50 had been earned by them before said writing was given. As to this $107.50 the writing is inoperative for several reasons. 1. It is not what is technically known as a release, because not in the form of a deed under seal (2 Burrill Law Dic. 880, tit. “Release Williams v. Carrington, 1 Hilt. 515). 2. It nowhere uses the word gift, nor any apt words indicating that a gift was intended, and in this respect the case differs from Gray v. Barton (55 N. Y. 65). In…