110 N.Y.S. 383 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1908
The plaintiff, a saleswoman, brings this action for wages. The pleadings were oral, and the defense was a general denial. Evidence of payment was given without objection on the part -of the plaintiff. There was a sharp conflict of testimony upon the ■latter issue, and upon the question whether the defendant or his father was the owner of the store where the plaintiff was employed. The plaintiff testified that she worked for the defendant for a period of ■eight weeks, that he withheld from her wages of $9 per week from $3 to $5 each week for the first four, weeks, and that he did not pay her anything for the remainder of the time she so claims to have been employed by him. The judgment was for $49 and costs.
The plaintiff stated she lived in a boarding house, and was asked if she had any money except what she earned from the defendant ■with which to pay board, to which she replied that she had money
It appears that the defendant did not know the name of the bank until he heard it mentioned at the trial, and consequently could not have caused the production at the, trial of the evidence desired. The defendant gave testimony to the effect that on the day subsequent to the plaintiff’s alleged promise to pay for the missing goods the latter paid to him $60 for the same, which payment, it is claimed, was made with $10 she had had in her pocket and $50 she went and drew from the bank. Although the incident relative to the missing goods was not directly in issue, the facts regarding the alleged payment of said sum of $60 were as above shown, and would, if admitted or proven, have strongly corroborated the defendant’s testimony with respect thereto. These matters were therefore relevant, and the exclusion of the testimony constituted reversible error.
For the errors so committed the judgment should be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.
GILDERSLEEVE, P. J., concurs. GREENBAUM, J, concurs in the result.