Lamoureux v. Burrillville Racing Ass'n

This action of the case in assumpsit was brought to recover damages for the breach of an alleged agreement to employ the plaintiff as a mutuel clerk at the defendant’s race track in the town of Lincoln. In the superior court a justice thereof sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the amended declaration and the case is here on the plaintiff’s exception to such decision.

The plaintiff alleges a contract of hiring, a breach thereof and consequent loss to himself. The pertinent portion of the amended declaration is as follows: “* * * on the 7th day of July 1949 agreed with the plaintiff that he,…