Haldeman v. Read Machinery Co.

Citations

• 80 Pa. Super. 578
• 1923 Pa. Super. LEXIS 212

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Master and servant — Indefinite period of employment — Presumption of employment at will.</p> <p>In a contract of hiring when no definite period is expressed, in absence of facts and circumstances showing a different intention, the law will presume a hiring at will. The fact that the hiring is at so much per week, or month, or year, will raise no presumption that the hiring was for such period. The preponderance of American authority in favor of the doctrine that an indefinite hiring is presumptively a hiring at will is so great that it is scarcely open to criticism.</p>