Arming v. Steinway

On the trial the plaintiff had a verdict of $600, and interest, for forty weeks of assumed service in teaching pupils the German language at the request of the late William Steinway. The sole proof of the contract was the testimony of plaintiff’s mother who testified that at Steinway Hall, on the 21st of September, 1896, Mr. Steinway told the plaintiff that ec She should give him all the time she had to spare to give German lessons to pupils, which he would send to her in a room in Steinway Hall, which he would let her have for that purpose, and that she would surely earn $15 a week for the…