Knox Stove Works, Inc. v. Wall

This is an action on a petition for an attachment sued out by R. P. Wall against the Knox Stove Works, Incorporated, a foreign corporation, to recover $2,071.82, damages for the alleged wrongful discharge of the plaintiff in violation of a contract between the parties.

The bill of particulars sets out that the claim was based on an oral contract for one year’s service from January 1, 1939, entered into at the office of the defendant corporation in Knoxville, Tennessee, sometime between the dates of November 1, 1938 and January 6, 1939, and that the defendant wrongfully refused to allow the…