Langendorf United Bakeries, Inc. v. Moore

MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

In this Oregon diversity action appel-lee, pursuant to jury verdict, secured judgment in the sum of $27,000 damages for breach of an oral contract of employment.

Upon appeal from that judgment the first question relates to the parol evidence rule. Appellant contends that if any promise to employ appellee was made, it was in consideration of the sale by appellee to appellant of appellee’s wholesale bakery distribution business. The terms of the sale were embodied in a written bill of sale which recited the consideration for the transaction to be the sum of $13,000. Thus,…