Beaver v. Raytheon Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff seeks to recover wages alleged to be due him under an oral contract of employment. The defendant's answer among other things pleaded the statute of frauds. A jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Under leave reserved the trial judge entered a verdict for the defendant and reported the case on a stipulation which *219contained a provision that if the verdict was rightly entered judgment is to be entered for the defendant.

The parties agree that the plaintiff was employed by the. treasurer, a duly authorized officer of the defendant corporation; that the plaintiff was in the…