Wells v. the Detroit News, Inc.

Plaintiff sued defendant The Detroit News, Inc., a Michigan corporation, in the Wayne circuit. His declaration alleges that the defendant “is a Michigan corporation with its main place of business in the city of Detroit”; that his assignor, “whose name defendant well knows, was employed on the editorial staff of said defendant for a period of approximately 24 years prior to his retirement in June of 1949”; that prior to retirement of plaintiff’s assignor “the editor of said defendant” promised and agreed to pay said assignor, upon and following his retirement, “an adequate retirement sum…