Sarusal v. Seung

Citations

• 96 Wash. 295
• 165 P. 116
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 603

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Contract op Employment — 'Duration— Termination. The employment of plaintiff was for the duration of the job, and not from day to day, where he was to secure men to work for defendant on a salvage job, under his own foreman and timekeeper, and to receive for his services in securing and overseeing the men ten cents a day for each man while so employed, it appearing that the joh would require 260 to 300 men for fifty days, and that plaintiff was put to considerable expense in securing the men; hence defendant could not arbitrarily terminate the contract before completion of the job and refuse to pay for the men secured by plaintiff while they remained on the job.</p>