Carl A. S. Coan, Jr. v. Victor J. Orsinger and Tyler Gardens Corporation

This case involves an oral personal service contract, admittedly entered into. Appellees insist they are free, with complete impunity, to breach their own agreement, the plan of which originated with appellee Orsinger and the promises •of which were undertaken by the appel-lee corporation.

Appellee Orsinger was president of the corporate appellee which in 1956 became the owner of Tyler Gardens, a 482-unit apartment development in Falls Church, Virginia. Orsinger’s affidavit in support of the appellees’ motion for summary judgment discloses that he knew that “one of the development’s needs was…