Case ID: ala_207/html/0692-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SOMERVILLE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(93 South. 517)
    ALABAMA NORTHERN RY. CO. v. HOGE.
    (7 Div. 339.)
    (Supreme Court of Alabama.
    June 30, 1922.)
    Master and servant ¡&wkey;4l (1) — Wrongfully discharged employe entitled to stipulated salary for balance of term.
    Where an employe, who was discharged without his fault before (he last two months of his* term expired, held himself in readiness to do his work, he was entitled to recover the stipulated salary for these months.
    Appeal 'from Circuit Court, Clay County; W. L. Longshore, Judge.
    Action by S. C. Hoge against the Alabama Northern Railway Company. Judgment foi* plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under § 6, Acts 1911, p. 449.
    Affirmed.
    Lackey, Pruet & Glass, • of Ashland, for appellant.
    Garrison & Gay, of Ashland, for appellee.
   SOMERVILLE, J.

The complaint alleges that plaintiff was employed by the defendant company for one year at $150 a month, and that, although he held himself in readiness to do his work, defendant failed or refused to furnish the work during the last two months of the term, to plaintiff’s damage in the sum of $300.

The case was tried before the court without a jury, and we think the evidence fairly supports the finding that plaintiff was employed as president of the company for a year at a salary of $150 a month, and that he was discharged without fault on his part; and that, having held himself in readiness to do his work during April and May, 1921, he was entitled to recover the stipulated salary for those months. Strauss v. Meertief, 64 Ala. 299, 38 Am. Rep. 8.

The judgment will therefore be affirmed.

Affirmed.

ANDERSON. C. J., and THOMAS and MILLER, JJ., concur.