Maxwell v. Cardinal Petroleum Corp.

PARKER, Chief Justice.

This is an action for damages for breach of an employment contract. Although trial was to a jury, the court instructed the verdict for defendant at the close of plaintiff’s evidence and judgment was entered accordingly. The parties will be referred to here as they were in the trial court. The plaintiff, Arthur Paul Maxwell, will be called “Maxwell”; Mission Enterprises, Inc. will be called “Mission”; and Cardinal Petroleum Corp. will be called “Cardinal”.

The pleadings and the evidence show that Maxwell had been in the crude oil business in the Beaumont area as a…