Hertzberg v. Kapo Dyeing & Printing Co.

The petitioner was regularly employed by the respondent as production manager of its dyeing and printing plant at Haledon, New Jersey. His weekly wages were fixed at the rate of $75, and his duties, while dealing primarily with production over which he had full and complete charge, required him, among other things, to expedite all special rush orders. It so happened that on the morning of March 9th, 1939, the petitioner was fulfilling a special rush order for one of its important New York customers, Ciro Fabrics, Inc., which order had been promised for ten o’clock delivery by Ciro’s motor…