Rodgers v. Southern Newspapers, Inc.

This suit was filed asking the court to declare the rights and liabilities of the parties on a certain contract of employment and for a money judgment for salaries already accrued plus certain installments which would continue to accrue provided the appellant was successful in her contentions.

The bill was dismissed on demurrer. The Chancellor held that she had no contractual rights to the salary.

Will L. Rodgers, former editor and publisher of a newspaper in Cleveland, Tennessee, sold that paper on July 31, 1946, to certain corporations later succeeded by the appellees in this present suit. At…