Lockhart v. Continental Cheese, Inc.

Hippe, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of $10,488.84 for plaintiff-appellee upon a jury verdict, and subsequent overruling of an alternative motion filed by defendants-appellants, for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

The appellee was employed by appellant, Continental Cheese, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, as general manager of a cheese manufacturing plant in Red Cloud, Nebraska, in about 1966. In July 1967 he also became an assistant to the accounts receivable manager of appellant Lawrence in order to facilitate Lawrence in guaranteeing to lenders of…