Welcome Wagon International, Inc. v. Hostesses, Inc.

White, C. Thomas, J.

The plaintiff Welcome Wagon International, Inc., engages in the business of soliciting businessmen in a local community to participate in a program whereby their employee, the hostess, calls upon newcomers to a community and promotes the products of the local businessmen who in turn pay Welcome Wagon for each contact of a newcomer within the community. The defendant, Jo Ann Smolczyk, was employed by the plaintiff Welcome Wagon beginning in April 1969 and continuing through October 1974 in the capacity of a hostess in McCook, Nebraska. Plaintiff and defendant entered into a…