Clipping:A lawsuit for wages
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| Date | Sunday, August 18, 1872 |
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| Text | Carlton and Sweasy, of the late stock company Cleveland nine, who have not been paid since June, have sued the stockholders for their entire salary, and from the result of the preliminary examination it seems likely that they will win their case. The club can show no legal cause for nonpayment in the way of insubordination or neglect of the club rules, such as in getting drunk or not reporting for play, etc.; and as the club is a chartered company, they are legally liable for all their engagements with players. It is one thing to engage a party of men for a special season, and then do divide the profits at the close of the service, and quite another to discharge such men before half the season is over, because the investment does not pay. When directors of clubs engage men they run the risk of profit or less, and must stand by the latter as well as benefitting by the former. The others of the Cleveland nine let up their employers, but Carlton and Sweasy do not see it in that light. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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