Cutter v. Gillette
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, for breach of a written agreement entered into on April 25, 1892, by the terms of which the defendant, who had bought the plaintiff’s business, agreed to employ him as foreman for the period of five years at a salary of twenty-four dollars a week. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The evidence offered and excluded upon the cross-examination of the plaintiff was in effect that his personal reputation as to credit among dealers was so poor that he could not get credit to carry on the business in which he attempted to work after his wrongful discharge from the defendant’s service. Assuming that the defendant was entitled to show that the plaintiff might have earned more money than he did between the time of his discharge and the time of trial; evidence of the plaintiff’s poor reputation for credit among dealers did not tend to show that he could have succeeded in the…
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