Bogash v. Studios, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the CourtField, C.J.
This action of contract to recover damages for breach of an oral contract of employment was tried to a jury. To the direction of a verdict for the defendant the plaintiff excepted.
There was no error.
The defendant pleaded the statute of frauds, that the contract as set forth in the plaintiff’s declaration “was an agreement which was not to be performed within one year from the making thereof, and said contract was not in writing, and no memorandum or note thereof was made in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith or by some person thereto by it lawfully authorized, such as is…
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