Smith v. Johns Eastern Co.

In this case Grady Smith (Smith) is unhappy because the judgment entered against Johns Eastern Company, which is a successor to his former employer, Eastern Adjustment Company, Inc. (the employer), was not greater, while the employer and its successor company, possibly upon the theory that the best defense is an offense, attack the judgment as being too large. We shall affirm.

The employer was an independent insurance adjusting firm. On January 1,1966, it hired Smith to manage its office in Washington, D. C. He was not new to the business, having previously been employed for four years by an…