Lancaster v. Stokes
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court, Part II, of the city of Richmond, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for the plaintiff. One of the defendants assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This is an action of assumpsit brought by the defendant in error, H. B. Stokes, against The Universal Screen and Blind Company, Inc., and. the plaintiff in error, George W. Lancaster, to recover damages for the alleged breach of a contract of hire of the plaintiff as sales manager of the corporation by Lancaster as its president. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of the corporation and against Lancaster, which we are asked to review.
1. In the outset, the defendant in error moved to dismiss the writ of error as having been improvidently awarded on the ground that the bills of exception…
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