Rosenthal v. Becher

Lewis (David C.), J.

James H. Rosenthal entered the employ of the defendant as a salesman on August 5, 1935, for a term stipulated to end December 31, 1935, at a fixed weekly wage of fifty dollars. Apparently the defendant’s business met the too common fate of hard sledding. Payrolls became a problem. The plaintiff did not receive his full salary. Irregular payments soon yielded to no payments and on September 21, 1935, the defendant owed the plaintiff eighty-seven dollars and ten cents for back pay. The plaintiff asked for it. The defendant did not have it. It was not a case of bad faith;…