Dugan v. Anderson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action brought by the appellee against the appellant for the breach of a contract. The facts of the case are stated with sufficient fulness in the prayers of the respective parties and in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action brought by the appellee against the appellant for the breach of a contract. The facts of the case are stated with sufficient fulness in the prayers of the respective parties and in the opinion of the Court. First Exception: After evidence had been offered on both sides, the plaintiff further proved by J. Edward Bird, that he had been for many years a dry goods merchant in Baltimore, and the plaintiff' had been in his employment as a clerk, salesman and superintendent for sixteen or seventeen years, down to 1861, when he went…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
We have to deal in this case simply with the questions of law presented by the two exceptions contained in the record. The jury have passed upon the conflicting testimony.
The suit was instituted by the appellee against the appellant on the 5th of January, 1871, and was tried in October of that year. No question arises upon the pleadings. The plaintiff’s ground of action as presented by his first prayer is, in substance, that in the summer of 1870 a contract was entered into between the parties, by which the defendant agreed to employ the plaintiff as clerk in his store at a salary of not less…
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