Champagne v. Passons

This is an action by plaintiff for an accounting and division of profits based upon an oral contract relative to the development of a tract of land embracing 52y2 acres. The trial court denied the plaintiff an accounting ; held that the agreement sued upon being in the nature of employment, the defendant T. B. Passons had a right to discharge the plaintiff at pleasure; and awarded judgment to the plaintiff for wages calculated on the basis of five dollars per day.

From this judgment the plaintiff appeals.

(During the course of this opinion the word “defendant” will be used as referring to T. B.…