Morris v. Park Newspapers of Georgia, Inc.

Banke, Presiding Judge.

Summary judgment was granted against the plaintiff in her suit for breach of an alleged oral contract of employment as a distributor for the defendant newspapers. The facts, construed most favorably to the plaintiff, are as follows.

The plaintiff entered into an oral agreement in 1969 with Foy Evans, owner and publisher of the newspaper, to be a distributor for a certain part of Warner Robbins. She bought papers for five cents each and sold them to carriers recruited by her for eight cents. Initially no period of time for the duration of this arrangement was discussed,…