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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cosmo Farquhar, Respondent, v. American Code Company, Inc., Appellant.
    
      Contract — master and servant — action to recover for breach of alleged contract of employment.
    
    
      Farquhar v. American Code Co., Inc., 201 App. Div. 454, affirmed.
    (Argued December 15, 1922;
    decided January 16, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 8, 1922, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was for the alleged wrongful discharge of the plaintiff as general sales manager of the defendant. The complaint alleged his employment under a written contract made in January, 1919, the due performance by him, and his discharge about four months thereafter. The answer denied due performance, and sets up various wrongful acts as justification for the discharge.
    
      George H. Gilman for appellant.
    
      Eugene Newman and Myron Butler for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.