Reinardy v. Bruzzese

Plaintiff brought suit in the common pleas court for the city of Detroit for breach by defendants of what the parties refer to as a service contract. Under its provisions defendants employed plaintiff for a term of 2 years and agreed to pay him $50 per week. The contract was observed by both parties for about 1 year, but when 59 weeks of the 2-year term still remained, defendants informed plaintiff that he was not to work for them any longer and that they could not afford to pay him anymore.

The trial court found for defendants on the grounds (1) that plaintiff had failed to prove that he had…