Independent Life Insurance Co. of America v. Williamson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

On June 15, 1908, the appellee, Williamson, was employed by the appellant company as manager for a term of one year at an agreed salary of $20 per week. The .contract, which was in writing, stipulated among other things,

“That the company reserves the right to cancel this contract at any time for misconduct, or for the violation of any clause thereof, in attention to business, or for any *819Infraction of the rules of the company, as to all of which the company shall be the final judge.”

On September 17, 1908, the company, through H. G. O’Kain,…