Case ID: ny-st-rep_51/html/0494-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ehrlich, Ch. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bernard J. Campbell, Resp’t, v. Juan G. Jimines et al., App’lts.
    
      (City Court of New York, General Term,
    
    
      Filed March 17, 1893.)
    
    Contract — Employment—Breach.
    Plaintiff was employed by defendants to perform services in the merchant marine, but on arriving at the West Indies was ordered into the Haytian navy, which service he declined to accept. He was willing to perform the service he undertook, but was not afforded facilities for doing so. Held, a breach of the contract on the part of defendants.
    Appeal from a judgment entered on verdict in favor of plaintiff.-
    
      Tracy, Boardman & Platt, for app’lt; William F. Randel, for resp’t.
   Ehrlich, Ch. J.

There was a clear breach of contract of employment, and the rule of damages was properly applied by the learned trial judge.

The employment contemplated services to be rendered in the merchant marine, instead of which the plaintiff, after he arrived at the West Indies, was ordered into the Haytian navy, a service he very properly declined to accept.

The plaintiff seems to have been ready, able and willing to do all he undertook to do, but was not afforded facilities for performance, and after a struggle succeeded in reaching his home.

There was no meritorious defense and the jury properly found for the plaintiff.

The judgment entered on their verdict must be affirmed, with costs.

Eitzsimoes, J., concurs.