Severance v. Knight-Counihan Co.

29 Cal.2d 561 (1947)

ALFRED D. SEVERANCE, Appellant,

v.

KNIGHT-COUNIHAN COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent.

S. F. No. 17299.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Jan. 28, 1947.

J. W. Jackson for Appellant.

Jackson Maddux and Charles F. Jonas for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant operates a printing plant in San Francisco. Plaintiff was employed by defendant as a salesman of its tariff business from May, 1936, to January, 1943. For over twenty years before his employment with defendant he conducted a printing business of his own. Defendant had no tariff business when plaintiff entered its employ, and…