Byrne v. Barrett

The plaintiffs are the members of a firm of real estate brokers. The defendant is a former employee engaged by the plaintiffs in 1926 as a real estate salesman under an agreement by which he was to receive fifty per cent of any commissions earned as the result of negotiations conducted by him. The employment was oral and was terminable at the will of either party. There is no claim by the plaintiffs of any express agreement at that time that, if the defendant should leave their employment, he might not continue to work on pending business for his own account. There is no claim on the part of…