Meyer v. Pulitzer Publishing Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Eon. Virgil Rule, Judge. (1) The court erred in treating the contract in suit as .a contract of employment and in instructing the jury that defendant had a right to discharge plaintiff under certain circumstances.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Eon. Virgil Rule, Judge. (1) The court erred in treating the contract in suit as .a contract of employment and in instructing the jury that defendant had a right to discharge plaintiff under certain circumstances. Plaintiff had a property right in his route, paid for by valuable consideration, and the contract could not be revoked, even for cause, without payment to plaintiff of the reasonable value of his vested interest. 1 Am. and Eng. Ency. of Law (2 Ed.), 1217; Bishop on Contracts, sec. 1051; Mechem on Agency, sec. 114; Story on Agency, sec. 477,…
1Opinion of the CourtNortoni, J.
This is a suit for damages said to have accrued to plaintiff through the alleged wrongful conduct of defendant in revoking his agency and appropriating a newspaper route theretofore occupied by him to its use. The verdict and judgment were for defendant and plaintiff prosecutes the appeal.
Defendant corporation owns and publishes a daily newspaper in the city of St. Louis under the name of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and plaintiff has for many years pursued the occupation of selling and delivering newspapers on Route No. 80 in St. Louis. It appears defendant has parceled the city into…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Glover v. HendersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894
- Butler v. SmithMississippi Supreme Court · 1858
- Echols v. New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1876
- Irish v. DeanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
- State ex rel. Walker v. WalkerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1885
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