Fried v. Portis Bros. Hat Co.

1. Where, by the terms of a contract of employment, the employer may discharge the employee when dissatisfied with his services, the employer, when exercising this right, must do so honestly and in good faith and only when the services are in fact unsatisfactory to the employer. MacKenzie v. Minis, 132 Ga. 323 (63 S. E. 900, 23 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1003, 16 Ann. Cas. 723). Where the discharge of the employee purports to be upon the ground that his services are not satisfactory to the employer, yet they are in fact satisfactory, the. discharge, notwithstanding the purported ground assigned by the…