Ransom v. City of Boston

These are actions of contract brought to recover wages, which the plaintiff would have received, if employed continuously by the defendant, in the first action, from May 6,1895, to November 4,1903, and, in the second, from November 5, 1903, to July 5, 1906.

The first action was before this court in 192 Mass. 299. The plaintiff’s petition for a writ of mandamus to restore him to the labor service in the employ of the defendant brought in July, 1905, was passed upon in 193 Mass. 537.

A judge of the Superior Court* found as facts that the plaintiff was a veteran of the civil war within the meaning…