Crabtree v. Bay State Felt Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of a contract in writing whereby the defendant agreed to employ the plaintiff as general superintendent of its factory for three years. Writ dated December 3, 1913. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Brown, J. The material evidence and the exceptions of the defendant are described in the opinion. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $4,467.07; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff had a written contract of employment as general superintendent of the defendant’s felt factory and business at Westborough, for a period of three years beginning on August 1,1913. He was formally discharged by a vote of the directors on November 25, 1913; and in this action for breach of the contract he obtained a verdict. The defendant’s only exception is to the judge’s refusal to give the following request: “3. If the plaintiff refused to appear before the board of directors of the defendant corporation when given sufficient notice to do so, then the refusal justified the…
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