Case ID: ga_110/html/0325-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Baldwin Fertilizer Company v. Cope.
    Argued February 12,
    Decided March 2, 1900.
    Appeal. Before Judge Falligant. Chatham superior court. May 16, 1899.
    
      Lawton & Cunningham, for plaintiff in error,
    cited as to time for notice: 63 Ga. 755; 64 Ga. 737; 67 Ga. 325; 91 Ga. 698; 97 Ga. 10-14; 50 Mich. 565, s. c. 15 N. W. Rep. 906; 83 Ala. 445, s. c. 3 So. Rep. 893; 19 Pickering, 349; 51 Md. 512, s. c. 34 Am. Rep. 323.
    
      Charlton, Mackall & Anderson, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

In the trial of an action for the breach of a contract wherein it is stipulated that the employer is to give the employee sixty days’ trial, beginning at a certain day, and at the end of the trial to give him a year’s employment, dating from the commencement of the trial, provided the employee’s services “ have proved satisfactory,” it is error to instruct the jury in substance that notice of dissatisfaction must have been given within the sixty days. The employer is entitled to a reasonable time after the expiration of the sixty days to give this notice. What is a reasonable time is a question to be passed upon by the jury in the light of the facts of this particular case. Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.