Osadchuk v. Gordon

This is an action of contract to recover damages for breach of a written contract of personal employment. The plaintiff obtained a verdict, and the defendants bring the case here on exceptions to the denial of their motion for a directed verdict, and to the refusal of the judge to give their requests for rulings.

The defendants, who were manufacturers of sweaters, cloth and knit goods under the firm name of the Suffolk Knitting Company, purchased of the plaintiff, also a manufacturer of sweaters, his machinery and stock in trade. But before the plaintiff began business for himself he had been…