Robinette v. Hubbard Coal Mining Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mineral County. Action by John Robinette against Hubbard Coal Mining Company. Judgment for defendant, on demurrer to evidence, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
The proceeding reviewed for error, begun by the notice of a motion for judgment based upon an alleged breach of a verbal contract of employment, terminated unfavorably to plaintiff, the defendant, a coal mining corporation, having at the end of the trial withdrawn from the jury, by a demurrer to the evidence, the right to pass upon the merits of the controversy. This demurrer the court sustaind and entered the judgment complained of.
John H. Robinette, the plaintiff, and Hubbard Coal Mining Company, represented by J. J. Johnson, its superintendent, entered into the contract of…
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