Cessac v. Leger

COE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Jefferson County awarding appellee Cleveland Leger damages in the sum of $1550.00 and appellee Simon Leger damages in the sum of $1210.00 for the alleged breach of a verbal contract of employment by the terms of which appellant Dupree J. Cessac employed appellees to grow a rice crop for him on land known as the O’Shaughnessy farm in Jefferson County, Texas, for the year 1947. The case was tried to a jury and on the verdict of the jury, judgment was entered for appellees as above stated.

Appellees allege that on or…