Buxbom v. Smith

This is an action for damages sustained in conjunction with a breach of two contracts of employment. The cause was tried before the court sitting without a jury, findings were made in favor of the plaintiff, and from the judgment based thereon the defendants now appeal.

The complaint sets forth two oral contracts contemporaneously made on February 12, 1939, and the purported cancellation of both of them as the preliminary basis for relief. One was a contract by which the defendants employed the plaintiff for a period of six months to handle the publication of a newspaper—a “shopping news”—to…