Case ID: scl_10/html/0171-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gantt, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Cox ads. John Adams.
    Employing an overseer for a year, is an entire contract for that period; and in an action to recover wages, as an overseer, the plaintiff is entitled to recover the whole sum, where defendant had determined the contract, 
    
    This was an action of assumpsit to recover overseer’s wages.
    It was attempted on the trial, to show, that the plaintiff had not fulfilled his contract; that he had been negligent and unfaithful, and withal had been guilty of an express violation of the contract made by him, in keeping hogs, which, by the. con tract, he was prohibited from doing. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendant moved for a new trial.
    
      Silliman, for the motion ; Spann and Levy, contra.
    
      
      
        Clancey v. Robertson, 2 M. Const. Rep. 404. R.
    
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Gantt, J.

The evidence furnishes no ground of belief that the contract was violated on the part of the plaintiff; on the contrary, that he fulfilled the trust with fidelity; and having been turned off after the crop had been made, the jury were correct in allowing him the entire consideration agreed to be paid for his services.

The motion for a new trial is therefore refused.

Nott, Oheves and Johnson, JJ., concurred.

Codcock, J., dissented. 
      
       4 McC. 26, 246, 249; 2 Hill, 477, 486; 2 Sp. 125-7; 1 McM. 484; 3 Rich. 162; 5 Rich. 466.