King & Graham v. Steiren
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was on the case brought by Edward Steiren against Alexander King and Thomas Graham, doing business as King & Graham, to recover the sum of $900, with interest, from April 1st 1855. The plaintiff averred that in June 1854 the defendants, being engaged in manufacturing soda ash, entered into a contract with him to take charge of the chemical department of their works from the 1st day of July next ensuing, or sooner, if…
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was on the case brought by Edward Steiren against Alexander King and Thomas Graham, doing business as King & Graham, to recover the sum of $900, with interest, from April 1st 1855. The plaintiff averred that in June 1854 the defendants, being engaged in manufacturing soda ash, entered into a contract with him to take charge of the chemical department of their works from the 1st day of July next ensuing, or sooner, if requested, until the 1st day of April 1855, a period of nine months, for which they agreed to pay him $900. That they wrote…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
The learned president of the District Court has so well vindicated his charge delivered to the jury, 'that little need be said in addition. In the 4th edition of Greenl. on Ev., vol. 2, § 261 a, the author, in discussing the subject of damages, remarks that “ a distinction has been taken between contracts for specific work by the piece, and the like, and contracts for the hire of clerks, agents, labourers, and domestic servants for a year or shorter determinate period; and it is held in the latter class of cases that if the person so…
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