Harrop v. Landers, Frary & Clark Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Scire Facias upon a foreign attachment; brought to the Court of Common Pleas, by appeal from a justice of the peace, and tried to the court before Be Forest, J. The following facts were found by the court: In February, 1877, George Whitely, the defendant in the factorizing suit, had gone into the employment of the defendants, a manufacturing company doing business at New Britain.
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Scire Facias upon a foreign attachment; brought to the Court of Common Pleas, by appeal from a justice of the peace, and tried to the court before Be Forest, J. The following facts were found by the court: In February, 1877, George Whitely, the defendant in the factorizing suit, had gone into the employment of the defendants, a manufacturing company doing business at New Britain. He had no personal interview with them in regard to his employment, but his brother, Henz-y Whitely, had previously been sent for by the defendants, and asked by them if George had employment, and upon being…
1Opinion of the Court
.Park, C. J.
This case cannot be distinguished in principle "from that of Augur v. The New York Belting & Packing Co., 39 Conn., 536. In that case the assignor was at work under *563no special contract with his employer at the time the assignment was made, nor under any agreement as to any particular length of time. He was at work under an implied agreement that his employment should continue as it had done previously, and upon the same terms.
Here there was an agreement between Whitely, the assignor, and the defendants, when the assignment was made, which was that he should then commence work for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Augur v. New York Belting & Packing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1873