White v. United States Gypsum Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Perkins, J. Assumpsit by David R. White against the United States Gypsum Company for breach of a contract of employment. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
This is an action to recover damages for breach of an alleged contract of employment.
Plaintiff sought to recover salary and expenses, as traveling salesman for defendant company under an implied renewal of a pre-existing express contract, which expired on Decembr 31, 1909. The business of the defendant company was the manufacture and sale of Cementico and wall-coating goods of similar nature. Plaintiff’s claim was for the amount of his salary and expenses for the year 1910, on the basis of the preceding contract, less what plaintiff earned in other employment, and less an emergency expense…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- O'Connor v. BriggsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Caldwell v. Caldwell Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1904
- Van Valkenburg v. RogersMichigan Supreme Court · 1869
- Barnes v. Summit Silk Manufacturing Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1909
- Ewing v. JansonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1893
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