Oliver Construction Co. v. Reeder
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action on contract; from city court of Statesboro — Judge Brannen. May 12, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
Beeder sued the W. J. Oliver Construction Comjoany for certain damages which he alleged he had sustained by reason of the fact that the defendant had agreed to give him continuous employment for two years in the grading of a certain railroad which was being built, and had failed to do so. To state the testimony most favorably to the plaintiff (for the verdict of the jury in his favor entitles him to have his case thus viewed), he made an oral agreement with the company, which was then engaged as contractor in the construction of a railroad from Statesboro, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee,…
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