H. & L. M. Warten Cotton Co. v. McGuire
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Morgan County Court; G. O. Chenault, Special Judge. Action by W. F. McGuire against the H. & L. M. Warten Cotton Company, a partnership, for damages for breach of • contract. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Morgan County Court; G. O. Chenault, Special Judge. Action by W. F. McGuire against the H. & L. M. Warten Cotton Company, a partnership, for damages for breach of • contract. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under section 6, p. 449, Acts 1911. The evidence for plaintiff tended to show that in September, 1917, he made a contract with one A. T. Le Ids, representing the H. & L. M. Warten Cotton Company, a partnership, in which Le Fils was a partner, to work for the partnership for a period of six months, at $100 a month, and that his…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Appellee brought this action declaring on the common counts and specially as for the breach by appellant of a contract by which appellant had engaged the services of appellee for a stipulated term at a stipulated wage payable in monthly installments.
Appellee’s case was that appellant had engaged his services for the term of six months,' during which he was to have charge of appellant’s cotton business at Rogersville; that without fault on his part he had' been discharged from his said employment; and that continuously thereafter and during the remainder of the term he had held himself in…
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