John Dow v. Shoe Corporation of America, Mid-States Shoe Company, a Wisconsin Corporation

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

John Dow, plaintiff, a shoe manufacturer’s salesman, in count III of his amended complaint, sued Mid-States Shoe Company, a Wisconsin corporation, and others not now before the court, for breach of an alleged oral contract for plaintiff’s lifetime employment. On motion of Mid-States, herein also called defendant, the district court ordered a dismissal of the amended complaint 1 at plaintiff’s costs, for failure to state a cause of action, and this appeal followed.

Substantively the law of Wisconsin governs this case.

Count III alleges that on January 10, 1935, at…