E. W. Bruno Co. v. Friedberg

As a matter of law, the amount of recovery awarded to plaintiff may not stand. On the basis of the findings of the Referee and the record, the stated award is unsupported and should be modified.

The plaintiff was heretofore held entitled to have a recovery against the defendants for a breach of fiduciary duty by the defendant Friedberg as plaintiff’s sales manager in secretly soliciting and appropriating his employer’s business with respect to the importation and sale in this country of ‘ ‘ Royal Sweden” hairbrushes. This court held that the recovery of damages was ‘‘ the appropriate and…