General Mills, Inc. v. Steele

T deprecate as much as my associates do the fact that appellee, a trusted employee of appellant and well represented by counsel, has welshed on his agreement, deliberately and thoughtfully entered into on advice of counsel, and in the name of the law is profiting thereby. But I cannot agree that appellant may in law be allowed to have the service performed without paying the statutory rate it agreed, and the law compelled it to pay. I think it clear that the district judge was right in the view he took, that the authorities in Texas leave in no doubt that rates prescribed by the Texas…