Russell
Russell v. H. W. Johns-Manville Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
This appeal is from a judgment rendered and entered in the plaintiff’s favor in an action brought by him to recover the sum of $600 alleged to have become due and payable by virtue of the following state of facts: The plaintiff in the month of October, 1918, was a salaried employee of the defendant upon a month-to-month employment, at a monthly salary of $250, and had been such for several years prior to that time. In October, 1918, the defendant issued to all of its salaried employees the following notice:
After receiving this notice the plaintiff continued in the employ of the defendant until the sixteenth day of November, 1918, when he was discharged, and on November 30, 1918, was paid for his salary in full to that date, according to the terms of his former employment. He thereafter commenced this action to recover the sum of $600 alleged to have become due by virtue of the above written notice received by him in common with all the rest of the defendant’s salaried employees.
Upon the trial of the cause the plaintiff testified and the court found: “That said plaintiff, relying upon the additional compensation promised by said defendant, in said notice, remained in the employ…