General Paint Corporation v. Kramer

McDermott, circuit judge.

The defendants appeal from a judgment for $56,625 rendered upon the verdict of a jury. The plaintiff declared upon a breach of an oral contract of employment for his lifetime. The defendants denied the oral contract; denied the authority of the agent with whom the plaintiff claimed he dealt, to make such a contract; and objected to the introduction of any proof of such oral agreement, for that it altered the terms of a written contract of employment and contravened an applicable Oklahoma statute. Hill, Hubbell & Co. merged with the General Paint Corporation in…