Sheets v. Hill Brothers Distributors, Inc.

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Plaintiff has appealed from the judgment of the trial court directing a verdict for defendants at the close of plaintiff’s evidence in her suit for damages in the amount of $93,975.00 for alleged breach of an oral contract of employment.

The following facts and circumstances reasonably could be found by a jury to exist from a consideration, in the light most favorable to her, of plaintiff’s evidence. On January 2, 1958, while employed by The 5940 Shoe Co., Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hill Brothers Distributors, Inc., at its store in St, Joseph, Missouri, plaintiff…