Laursen v. O'Brien

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment, upon verdict, rendered in an action upon an oral contract of employment wherein appellant was the employer and appellee the employee. The alleged agreement concerned the promotion of appellant’s inventions by appellee and covered the period from January, 1922, to July, 1926. After an extended trial wherein both appellant and appellee appeared as witnesses, the jury rendered a verdict for $10,000 for appellee, to which the' court added interest.

At the close of the evidence appellee elected to seek a recovery upon a quantum meruit basis — for…