Beck v. Only Skirt Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Only Skirt Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 26th day of May, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of June,. 1916, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
.Shearn, J.:
The action was brought for wrongful discharge under a contract by which the plaintiff was employed for one year as a designer and maker of new styles of ladies’ skirts. The contract provided: “ The party of the second part [plaintiff] hereby agrees to give his entire time to designing and the making of new styles, and to serve, them [defendant] diligently and faithfully according to the best of his ability, and also to their entire satisfaction, of which satisfaction, parties of the first part [defendant]-shall be the sole judges.”
Plaintiff was discharged, and defendant alleges…
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