EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES, INC. v. Greening

NEBEKER, Associate Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether under the statute of frauds 1 parol evidence was properly used to interpret an informal memorandum written and signed by an employer some nine months after an oral promise to pay the employee a certain annual salary. A jury returned a verdict for appellee-employee manifesting a finding that appellant had agreed to pay the employee $25,000 for services during 1960, and that the memorandum served to memorialize the agreement.

In 1959, Mr. Leonard Melley, president of appellant corporation, went to appellee, a former' employee,…