Troy Fertilizer Co. v. Logan
Supreme Court of Alabama
Arpear from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before tbe lion. John P. Hubbard. The appellee in this case, S. H. Logan, brought two actions against the Troy Fertilizer Company, a domestic corporation, to recover wages, or compensation, alleged to be due under a contract of employment.
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Arpear from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before tbe lion. John P. Hubbard. The appellee in this case, S. H. Logan, brought two actions against the Troy Fertilizer Company, a domestic corporation, to recover wages, or compensation, alleged to be due under a contract of employment. Each action claimed $100, as one month’s wages; and each was commenced in a justice’s court,, on the 12th November, 1888. The complaint filed in the-justice’s court, in each case, contained the common counts, and a special count for the breach of the contract of employment during the term. In the Circuit Court,…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
1. There was no error committed by the court in the admission of the letter purporting to have been written by O. O. Wiley, president of the defendant company, directed to, and received by the plaintiff in due course of mail. The only objection urged to the document is the failure to prove the signature of the writer. This was unnecessary, as the facts justified the inference that the signature was his. The terms of employment mentioned in the letter, were those previously proposed by the plaintiff, and the letter accepts these terms. The plaintiff responded to the call made in the letter…
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