Powell Paving Co. of North Carolina Inc. v. Scott

1. In a suit for damages for an alleged breach of a contract of employment, brought by the employee against the employer, where the petition alleged that the contract was for employment for a year, and that the employer breached the contract, to the damage of the employee, by discharging him before the expiration of the term, and where from undisputed evidence it appeared that the defendant was engaged in the construction and paving of a public road, which from its nature was a temporary and not a permanent project, and where the only evidence tending to establish a contract of employment was…