Hippodrome Co. v. Lewis

Pattison, L,

delivered the opinion of the Court,

The action in this ease was brought to recover damages for the breach of a written contract, set out in the declaration, entered into by the appellee and the appellant company. By it the defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff a salary of sixty dollars per week, payable weekly, for the period of two-years from the date of the contract (December 1st. 1914), as compensation .for1 his services as manager of the Hippodrome Theatre, in the City of Baltimore. The plaintiff therein agreed in consideration of his salary to accept said employment “and to…