Miller v. Gidiere & Marmande

'On the Merits.

The employment was in February, 1883, for the remainder of that year — the plaintiff insisting that it was for the term, eleven months at the rate of $100 a month — the defendants contending that it was by the month. We are satisfied that it was the former. The letter of Mar-mande, the resident managing partner, to Miller, informed him that G-idiere had written him to employ him as overseer, and adds: — “ I agreed with your conditions which were $100 a month, what will be for you eleven hundred dollars this year, a month having elapsed since the 1st of January.” Overseers are…