Rudman v. Cowles Communications, Inc.

McGrrvERN, J. (dissenting).

I fear the majority misconstrue the nature and purpose of the contract. We have here no ordinary master-servant relationship. An application of the general rules applicable to that relationship lends no substantial support to a solution of the problem presented by this appeal. Here, we have an executive employment contract, on a high echelon, of a former owner of a successful enterprise sold by him to the defendant, simultaneously with the contract of employment. The sale and the employment contract are one. A “ package deal”. So regarded by the briefs and by the…