Sherburne v. Orleans Cotton Press
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action by the engineer lately employed by the Orleans Cotton Press, to recover his full year’s salary.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action by the engineer lately employed by the Orleans Cotton Press, to recover his full year’s salary. He shows that he was regularly employed, under a resolution of the company, for one year, from the 24th February, 1835, with a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum ; and that, on the 19th September following, he was discharged, by an official note from the secretary of the company, stating “ that his services were no longer required.” He immediately notified the company that he should claim his salary for the whole year.…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment which rejects his claim for full wages, as engineer, employed by the defendants, and discharged before the expiration of his term. His wages were fixed by a resolution of the board of directors, of the Cotton Press, at twelve hundred dollars per annum, from the 24th February, 1835, and he was discharged the 19th September following.
The district judge was of opinion, as the hiring was by the year, the defendants had no right to discharge the plaintiff until the end of his term ; and that he would be entitled to his whole wages, if he had not been told…
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