Judd v. Wasie

I do not feel that the written promise of the employer to pay a bonus, as set forth in the majority opinion, can properly be said to have made the bonus here a mere gratuity, as the court holds, because the employee “was not required to and did not undertake to remain in defendant’s employ for any definite time nor to do or refrain from doing anything that he was not under his terms of employment required to do or refrain from doing.”

The instrument submitted by the employer for the employee’s signature promised to pay a bonus to the employee for the year 1935, on the condition that net…