United Controls, Inc. v. Alpha Systems, Inc.

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellee, Alpha Systems, Inc., commenced this action against the appellant, United Controls, Inc., to recover employee recruitment fees due under an express oral contract. The appellee sought a $9,600 fee, representing 30 percent of an estimated $32,000 salary to be paid the recruited employee, but the jury awarded only $4,800. The appellant does not attack the amount of the verdict, but rather its viability, contending that the jury could have reached a verdict only by applying quantum meruit as a theory of recovery.

The appellant correctly notes that while a party…