Edwards v. Block
Supreme Court of Georgia
Contracts. Waiver. Master and Servant. Pleadings. Before Judge Hammond. Fulton Superior Court. March Term, 1884. Edwards brought suit against Block to recover $1,300.00, less a credit of $50.00, on a contract for services as a baker. The declaration alleged, in brief, as follows: Defendant employed plaintiff for a year, beginning January 6, 1882, and ending January 6, 1883, at $25.00 per week.
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Contracts. Waiver. Master and Servant. Pleadings. Before Judge Hammond. Fulton Superior Court. March Term, 1884. Edwards brought suit against Block to recover $1,300.00, less a credit of $50.00, on a contract for services as a baker. The declaration alleged, in brief, as follows: Defendant employed plaintiff for a year, beginning January 6, 1882, and ending January 6, 1883, at $25.00 per week. Plaintiff was induced to leave his home in New York and to come to Atlanta to accept this employment, and continued to labor for defendant until January 21,1882, when the building in which he was…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
1. This was a motion for new trial, which the court refused, and this refusal is excepted to. As to the general grounds in the motion, the verdict was almost, if not, demanded by the evidence. The law approves it, the court below did approve it, and we approve his ruling in this respect.
2. The first ground insisted on by the able counsel for plaintiff in error is, that the court refused to charge the jury, “ that if they should be satisfied from .the .evidence that the original contract had, as claimed by defendant, a condition that the employment by defendant of plaintiff…
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