Tanner v. Merrill
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Saginaw; Wilber, J. Assumpsit by Frank A. Tanner against Thomas Merrill and others for work and labor performed. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The defendants appeal from a judgment recovered against them at circuit. They are lumbermen, and" the plaintiff worked for them at Georgian Bay, his transportation from Saginaw to that place having been paid by them. When he quit work, a question arose as to who should pay this, under the contract of employment, and defendants’ superintendent declined to pay any trans*59portation. The plaintiff needed the money due him to get home, and showed a telegram announcing the illness or death of his mother, and said that he must go home, to which the superintendent replied that “he did not pay any man’s…
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