Cronemillar v. Duluth-Superior Milling Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. ViNJE, Circuit Judge. Tbis is an action to recover $75 as damages for breach of a; contract of employment. It wa& commenced in justice’s court, where the plaintiff recovered/ a judgment, from which defendant appealed and the actioyt was tried de novo in circuit court, in which court a nonsuit was granted at the dose of the plaintiff’s evidence.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. ViNJE, Circuit Judge. Tbis is an action to recover $75 as damages for breach of a; contract of employment. It wa& commenced in justice’s court, where the plaintiff recovered/ a judgment, from which defendant appealed and the actioyt was tried de novo in circuit court, in which court a nonsuit was granted at the dose of the plaintiff’s evidence. The plaintiff in 1906 was a stationary engineer and the defendant was a foreign corporation operating a mill at Superior, of which one Scott was chief engineer, with authority to…
1Opinion of the Court
Wrusnow, O. J.
The appellant rightly claims that, where wages are payable by the month, such circumstance is evidence of a hiring for that period, which will be sufficient, in the absence of any evidence impairing its weight, to sustain a finding that there was a hiring for that period. Kellogg v. Citizens' Ins. Co. 94 Wis. 554, 69 N. W. 362. The difficulty in the present case is that the plaintiff, after testifying that he was hired at $75 a month, freely admitted that Scott’s testimony was true, to the effect that he was employed upon the same conditions as upon his previous employment. It…
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