Viall v. Lionel Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover salary or wages claimed to be due under a written agreement of employment, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County where a demurrer to the second defense of the answer was sustained (Scott, J.) and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Booth, Acting-Judge; facts found a,nd judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The complaint recites that on October 4th, 1913, the plaintiff and defendant entered into a written agreement by which the plaintiff was to enter the employ of the defendant for a period of fifteen months from October 15th, 1913, at the annual salary of $2,000 payable in equal weekly payments; that the defendant paid this salary up to December 9th, 1913, and since this date has refused to carry out its contract, while the plaintiff has been ready and willing so to do, and that there is due the plaintiff for salary under the contract $1,821.48 less $875, the amount earned by the plaintiff in…
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