Baker v. D. Appleton & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, D. Appleton & Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 24th day of December, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of December, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the direction of a verdict at the close of plaintiff’s case and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial. Prior to November, 1888, William H. Appleton, Daniel Sidney Appleton, William W. Appleton and Daniel Appleton were engaged in business as copartners under the- firm name and style of D Appleton & Co., and the plaintiff, who had been the manager of the business of the copartnership at Chicago, Ill., was, on the 16th *360day of November, 1883, employed by William H. Appleton by…
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