Mayhew v. Felton's Estate
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from the finding and report of commissioners. Pleas, general issue, payment and statute of limitations. Replication, traversing the plea of payment, and alleging that the cause of action did accrue within six years and thirty days next before the death of the intestate. Trial by jury, September Term, 1915, Franklin County, Butler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is an appeal from the award of commissioners, and the plaintiff seeks to recover wages alleged to be due him for services in and about the decedent’s store at Highgate Springs. The plaintiff entered the employ of L. H. Felton, hereinafter spoken of as the defendant, in 1895, and continued in the service until the latter’s death in January, 1914. His evidence tended to show that by the contract he was to receive wages at the rate of ten dollars per week, one-half of which was to be paid to him and the other half was to be held by the defendant as a savings fund for the plaintiff’s old…
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