City of Highland Park v. Grant-Mackenzie Co.

This case presents a statute of frauds question as to whether or not certain statements made by an employer to a hospital, concerning care of an employee, constitute a promise within the statute of frauds.

Plaintiff and appellee filed its declaration setting forth the following allegations: That one Sam Cherniek, who was a valuable employee of defendant Grant-Mackenzie Company, was admitted to the hospital on July 31, 1957, and that he was given hospital care and thereafter discharged; that on 2 subsequent occasions he was readmitted to the hos pital and discharged. It was further alleged that…