Young v. Independent Publishing Co.

Rhodes, Justice:

Appellant commenced this action to recover damages for breach of an alleged employment contract under which he was to serve as editor-in-chief of two daily newspapers, The Anderson Independent and The Daily Mail. The lower court granted summary judgment on the ground that the alleged contract was unenforceable under the statute of frauds. We affirm.

On August 1, 1973, respondent, The Independent Publishing Company, appointed as its editor-in-chief appellant, James Young, who had been employed with respondent’s papers for twenty-three years. Pie was terminated approximately six…