Jones & Phillips, Inc. v. Patrick

Patrick sued Jones & Phillips, Inc., in a justice’s court, to recover $50.25 as damages resulting from the breach of a contract of employment. A judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and, on appeal, a verdict in his favor for $36.35 was rendered in the superior court. The defendant’s motion for a new trial being overruled, it excepted. The only point stressed by it in this court is that the verdict for $36.35 was unauthorized by the evidence; that the terms of the writteh contract fixed the amount of salary, that it was not disputed that the contract was breached, and that the only…