Anisgard v. Bray

The defendants appeal from a judgment with damages in the amount of $35,000 entered in favor of the plaintiff. In his complaint, the plaintiff alleged that the defendants had breached their contract with him to share in the profits and employ him as the manager of a tennis facility to be constructed in Pittsfield in exchange for the use of the plaintiff’s idea and preparation for the construction of the facility. Refusing to follow the master’s conclusions of law, the judge found that the parties had formed an oral partnership agreement and that the defendants broke that agreement when they…