Lasser v. Grunbaum Bros. Furniture Co.

This is an action for damages for breach of an alleged contract of employment. Quoting an instruction given by the trial court, “ . . . the sole issue in this case is whether or not there was a contract of employment for a year certain between plaintiff and defendant corporations.

Plaintiff testified to an oral contract of employment as manager of a furniture store, entered into about the middle of February, 1952. The offer made by an officer of the defendant corporations, as testified to by the plaintiff, was:

“. . . I’ll pay you $18,000 a year, and I’ll pay it in this manner: $15,000 a year…