Thrift v. Payne

Citations

• 71 Ill. 408

Syllabus

<p>1. Contract—when entire, it must be fully performed. To recover for wages under a contract to work for a specified length of time, a plaintiff must show full performance on his part, or a release by his employer, or some justifiable cause for leaving.</p> <p>2. Same—what is an abandonment. Where a plaintiff, who had engaged to work for a certain length of time for the defendant, got the consent of his employer, before his time expired, to absent himself for a short time, and was absent a few days longer than he expected to be, but held himself subject to his employer’s control, and returned and worked for him again until after the expiration of the time for which he engaged, it was held that there was no abandonment of the contract, and that plaintiff was entitled to recover on it.</p>