Dickinson v. Norwegian Plow Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. B. "Wyman, Circuit Judge. This was an action to recover $200, claimed to be due as a balance of salary for a year’s services under-an alleged employment for the whole year at $1,500 per annum. The answer consisted of a general denial and a counterclaim for $600 for time lost.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. B. "Wyman, Circuit Judge. This was an action to recover $200, claimed to be due as a balance of salary for a year’s services under-an alleged employment for the whole year at $1,500 per annum. The answer consisted of a general denial and a counterclaim for $600 for time lost. The evidence showed that in the fall of 1888 the plaintiff had a conversation with one Mitchel, the secretary and general manager of the defendant corporation, with regard to entering the employment of the defendant for a year at the rate of $1,500. '…
1Opinion of the Court
"Winslow, J.
This action was here before upon appeal from a judgment of nonsuit. 96 Wis. 376. It was then held that there was sufficient evidence to require the submission to the jury of the question whether plaintiff’s employment was for the entire year ending June 1, 1895. The case has been tried again, and the evidence on both sides is preserved in the bill of exceptions. From this evidence now before us there can be no doubt that the plaintiff’s employment was understood on both sides to be an employment for an entire year when he went to work for the defendant June 1, 1889. Probably the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Dickinson v. Norwegian Plow Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
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