Kahn v. Antevil

In an employee’s action for damages for breach of an oral contract of employment on the part of the employer in failing to pay the former several amounts represented by an agreed weekly drawing account, judgment in favor of the plaintiff reversed on the law and a new trial granted, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. Appeal from denial of the motion to set aside the verdict dismissed. We are of opinion that the verdict as a matter of law represents excessive damages in that it is for the agreed amount of the drawing account for the unexpired term of the one year contract of…