McCullough Iron Co. v. Carpenter

The appellant is an Iron Manufacturing corporation. It was sued by the appellee for wrongful discharge from its service. The declaration contains two counts. The first alleges that, the defendant hired the plaintiff for a year from the first of April, 1886, as assistant manager, at the wages of one thousand dollars a year, payable in monthly instalments, together with the privilege of a house and cow-keep, and such articles as he might purchase of the defendant at cost; that he entered into the defendant’s service upon these terms and was discharged from service before the end of the year.

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