Case ID: misc_3/html/0144-01.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

Campbell v. Jimines.
    (City Court of New York
    General Term,
    March, 1893.)
    A master who employs a servant to work in a particular line, cannot insist upon Ms worldng at something else; and if he refuses to afford the servant facilities for the performance of the work for wMch he was employed, he is liable for breach of contract.
    Appeal from a judgment entered on verdict in favor of plaintiff.
    
      Tracy, Boardmam, & Platt, for plaintiff (appellant).
    
      William F. Bamdel, for defendant (respondent).
   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 tbe 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.

Fitzsimons, J., concurs.

Judgment affirmed.