Brown v. Hardy

This is an action instituted by appellee against appellants to recover a balance claimed to'be due on his salary as manager of a cotton oil mill at Camden, Arkansas, owned and operated bv the appellants. Appellants answered, admitting the employment of appellee by them as such manager at the salary mentioned in the complaint, but they alleged that appellee, by virtue of his contract of employment, agreed to manage the business in a careful, capable and business-like, manner, and had failed to do so. They seek to recoup damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence of…