Brink v. Fay

Citations

• 7 Daly 562

Syllabus

<p>A master may, before the expiration of a term of hiring, discharge his servant for bringing actions for instalments of wages, that are not yet due, and for talking of these actions with liis master’s other servants and with members of firms of merchants competing in business with his master, and saying that his master is in such poor credit that he has had to sue him for his wages.</p> <p>If the servant, recklessly, and with a disregard of consequences to his master, does what is likely to work substantial injury to his master, the latter-may discharge him and terminate the hiring and bringing vexatious and unfounded suits against his master is such conduct.</p>