Bloodgood v. Wuest
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, George W. Bloodgood, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office, of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 8th day of April, 1901, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, and also from an order entered* in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of April, 1901, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The plaintiff testified that on January 1, 1898, he became an assistant equity clerk in the public office of the defendant, who was county clerk of Kings county ; that a few weeks thereafter he said *357to the defendant that the work was accumulating; that he was working on it overtime, whereupon the defendant said: “ Well,, keep it up; * * * I will pay you, keep the work up, I will! pay you— will pay you for it;” that this was substantially repeated-, at several subsequent conversations. During the time in question^ the plaintiff received a regular monthly salary. His bill for the?…
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