Savage v. Spur Distributing Co.

This is an action for damages for breach of an alleged employment contract. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the trial judge directed a verdict for defendant and dismissed the action. Plaintiff appealed in error and insists that the evidence made a case for the jury upon one or another of the theories on which he sought a recovery.

His first theory, stated in the first count of his' declaration, is that lie and defendant made a contract by which it employed him as its assistant secretary at a salary of $3,600 per year and a bonus of at least $600 per year, and bound itself to continue such…