Wharton v. Christie’s Empirical Analysis
1891
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3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1985
3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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“Q. What was it designed for? A. For me to get employment elsewhere. Q. Explain what you have in mind about that. A. Elsewhere would be into any other establishment. Q. Well, you say to get you employment. Explain all that was said on the subject between you and Mr. Constable? A. Well, a man going to be employed at any other works in the capacity that I had served Mr. Wharton, and being discharged, and it being known, he could not get any other employment. Q. Just tell us what occurred. What was said between you and Mr. Constable about it, as nearly as you can recollect it? A. Well, it was in words just like this: that this would be of assistance to assist me in getting work this discharge, or this piece of paper and my discharge would be kept secret and nobody would know anything about it; that is what were the words that passed between us. [ Id. at 608 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... His evidence is that he lost his position, not by resignation, but by the wrongful act of his master. He was peremptorily dismissed from service, and for the consequences of such dismissal Wharton's liability to him had become fixed. Nothing was done with the intention of discharging such liability. On the contrary, Christie expressly told Wharton that he wished to retain his position. Constable had no right to deliver the resignation to Wharton to enable him to set it up as a bar to Christie's action. That was a clear misappropriation of the document, and to permit it, under the circumstances detailed by Christie, to be used for such a purpose does great injustice. [ 53 N.J.L. at 616-17 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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