Winship v. Portland League Base Ball & Athletic Ass'n
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Ont report from superior court. An action for damages for breach of a contract under the rules of the Eastern New England Association of Base Ball Clubs, by which the plaintiff engaged to manage base ball for the defendant for six months, commencing April 15, 1885, for seven hundred and eighty dollars. The eighth clause of the contract was as follows : " Eighth.
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Ont report from superior court. An action for damages for breach of a contract under the rules of the Eastern New England Association of Base Ball Clubs, by which the plaintiff engaged to manage base ball for the defendant for six months, commencing April 15, 1885, for seven hundred and eighty dollars. The eighth clause of the contract was as follows : " Eighth. And it is hereby mutually agreed by the said parties hereto, that should the said party of the second part, at any time or times, or in any manner, fail to comply with the covenants and agreements herein contained, or any of them, or…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
The only question is whether upon the plaintiff’s evidence alone, no evidence being offered in defense, this action is maintainable. We think it is. The defendants éontracted with the plaintiff for his services for six months. The contract is in writing. At the end of three months and a half they discharged him. No reason was given for the discharge. Apparently there was none. ‘ The defendants claim that by the *573terms of their contract they had a right to discharge him at any time. We think the contract did not give them that right. It reserved to them the right to discharge him if from…
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