Bowers Steel, Inc. v. DeBrooke

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the trial court in favor of appellee, Thomas V. DeBrooke, against appellant, Bowers Steel, Inc. Appellee brought suit against appellant, a small “finished-steel” importing and sales corporation, for breach of an oral contract of employment.

The case was submitted to a jury on special issues and the jury found against appellant on every issue, as follows: (1) that appellant corporation agreed to hire appellee as an officer and to compensate him with 20 percent of the stock of the corporation, a salary of $30,000.00 per year, and the…