Dunbar v. Orleans Metal Bed Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Suit by Fred M. Dunbar against the Orleans Metal Bed Company to recover salary and expenses. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals, and plaintiff, answering, prays that the award be increased.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
The evidence adduced herein discloses the following facts:
In 1912 plaintiff was employed by defendant, under a verbal contract and for no fixed time, as a traveling salesman, and (so far as appears), with no reason to complain of him, defendant discharged him, on two weeks’ notice. In December of the following year, desiring to re-employ him, two of its officers called on him for that purpose, and, saying that he had been “knifed” once before, he insisted as a condition of his accepting the reemployment, upon a written contract for a fixed term, and on…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Tete v. LanauxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1893
- Curtis v. A. Lehmann & Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
- Camp v. Baldwin-Melville Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
- Sherburne v. Orleans Cotton PressSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1840
- Daspit v. D. H. Holmes Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
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- Van Denburgh v. H. T. Higginbotham, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
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