Peacock v. Coltrane

FLY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by appellee to recover the sum of $1,110 actual and $2,000 exemplary damages alleged to have accrued by reason of the breach of a contract of employment on the part of appellant, who had employed appellee as a teacher for the year beginning June 1, 1904, and ending May 31, 1905. The breach was alleged to have consisted in the wrongful discharge of appellee on January 19, 1905. The salary that was alleged to have been contracted for was $1,200, which amount was sued for less a credit of $90 received by appellee for three months’ service in another school.…