Briggs v. Gilbert Grocery Co.

The first ground of reversal of the trial court by the Court of Appeals was the failure to require the plaintiff below to separately state and number the causes of action stated in the amended petition. It is the claim of the plaintiff in error that his employment was continuing in character from 1916 to 1924, and that the same amounted to a single contract. However, the amended petition avers that “plaintiff continued as president and general manager of the corporation until January, 1924; being formally and duly elected from year to year by the board of directors of defendant corporation.”…