Gary v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) If the contract of employment had contained no provision as to when or how it might be terminated, the defendant might have discharged the plaintiff at will; but since, under specific stipulations, the relation could be severed only in a particular way or on the happening *748of a certain event, the act of the defendant in dismissing the plaintiff without a compliance with these conditions would constitute a breach of the contract. According to the terms of the agreement, the plaintiff could not he demerited, suspended, or discharged from the service of the…