O'Donnell v. Daily News Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $3,380 for breach of contract. The complaint, among other matters, alleged that on or about January 31, 1910, a contract was entered into between defendant and plaintiff (who was then residing in Pennsylvania) whereby defendant agreed to employ plaintiff as its advertísing manager for one year from the date of such contract, and plaintiff agreed to accept said employment and within the first week thereof to remove…
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $3,380 for breach of contract. The complaint, among other matters, alleged that on or about January 31, 1910, a contract was entered into between defendant and plaintiff (who was then residing in Pennsylvania) whereby defendant agreed to employ plaintiff as its advertísing manager for one year from the date of such contract, and plaintiff agreed to accept said employment and within the first week thereof to remove with his family from Philadelphia to Minneapolis that defendant agreed to pay plaintiff, as compensation for his services…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilip E. Brown, J.
This is an action for damages for breach of an alleged contract ■for the plaintiffs employment as advertising manager for the defendant, the Minneapolis Daily News. The case was tried to the •court without a jury. Findings were fthed, it being held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover of the defendant the sum of $65, and judgment was ordered to be entered accordingly. Whereupon the ■plaintiff made request for substituted or additional findings, which request was denied, and judgment was entered as ordered. This is .an appeal by the plaintiff from the judgment so entered.
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