Lydon v. Allstate Insurance

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment awarding him. $213.04, claiming that the award should have been $17,654.16, the amount of commissions allegedly earned and accrued under his contract of employment with the defendant. There was no error. It is agreed that the contract was properly terminated. The intent of the parties entering into the contract must be gathered from construing the contract as a whole and not by placing special emphasis on any one part. Ucello v. Cosentino, 354 Mass. 48, 51 (1968). The trial judge correctly interpreted the agreement as a personal services contract which…