Breakwater Co. v. Donovan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio; William E. Day, Judge. Action by Eeona T. Donovan against the Breakwater Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
This was an action at law, in which, in the court below, Mrs. Donovan, as assignee of her husband, John F. Donovan, was plaintiff, and the Breakwater Company was defendant. The suit was based upon a written contract made October 3, 1908, by which the company agreed to pay Donovan, in installments, about $5,900 in compromise settlement of all existing controversies, and also agreed to employ him at a monthly salary until December 31, 1910. In December, 1909, Donovan commenced suit and later recover-ered judgment in Pennsylvania against the company for the unpaid…
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