Doucette v. Sallinger
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for wrongfully causing the discharge of the plaintiff by the Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company, a corporation in whose factory at Wakefield the plaintiff was employed as a chair worker earning on an average $7.50 a week, by serving a notice on that corporation falsely stating that the plaintiff had made an assignment of his wages to the defendant and by wilfully refusing to withdraw such notice when informed by the plaintiff that he never had made such an…
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Tort for wrongfully causing the discharge of the plaintiff by the Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company, a corporation in whose factory at Wakefield the plaintiff was employed as a chair worker earning on an average $7.50 a week, by serving a notice on that corporation falsely stating that the plaintiff had made an assignment of his wages to the defendant and by wilfully refusing to withdraw such notice when informed by the plaintiff that he never had made such an assignment. Writ dated October 6,1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. The evidence is described in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The defendant transmitted to the plaintiff’s employer a copy of an assignment of wages purporting on its face to have been given by the plaintiff, with a statement of the indebtedness claimed to be due. If the evidence had not gone further it *447well might be contended, that in what had been done the defendant, having as the record shows a valid assignment from a person bearing the same name as the plaintiff, honestly supposed that the assignor and the plaintiff were one and the same, and to protect his rights the notice was given in good faith.
But it further appears and the jury could find,…
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