Tillis v. Calvine Cotton Mills, Inc.

This is -the fourth time this case has been here. See Tillis v. Cotton Mills, 236 N.C. 533, 73 S.E. 2d 296; Tillis v. Cotton Mills, 238 N.C. 124, 76 S.E. 2d 376; and Tillis v. Cotton Mills, 244 N.C. 587, 94 S.E. 2d 600.

Ait the close of the evidence Calvine moved for judgment of involuntary nonsuit. The court properly overruled the motion. Parties to 'an executory contract for -the performance of some act or services in the future impliedly promise not to do anything to the prejudice of the other inconsistent with their contractual relations and, if one party to the contract renounces it, the…