Hamlin, Hale & Co. v. Race

Appellee was employed on the first of January, 1873, by Hamlin, Hale & Co., as a salesman in their store, for one year, at a salary of $1020, in monthly installments of $85. They, on the 23d of June following, dismissed him from their service, when they offered to pay him the amount that was due him to that date, which he declined to receive, and on the 6th of the following August brought this suit, to recover the balance for the full year, and on a trial in the court below recovered the full amount.

The declaration was in assumpsit, and contains a special count, with the usual common counts.…