Case Name: ROBINSON v. ADOLPH RAUDNITZ CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-05-24
Citations: 123 N.Y.S. 117
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROBINSON v. ADOLPH RAUDNITZ CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 123
Pages: 117–117

Head Matter:
ROBINSON v. ADOLPH RAUDNITZ CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
May 24, 1910.)
Master and Servant (§ 20*)—Contract of Employment—Discharge.
Where plaintiff rendered services for defendant in expectation that a contract would be entered into, but, a dispute having arisen as to what the terms of the contract should be, plaintiff was notified that his services would be no longer required after a specified date, such notice was not a breach of the contract of employment.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Master and Servant, Cent. Dig. § 19; Dec. Dig. § 20.*]
Appeal from City Court of New York, Trial Term.
Action by Murray Robinson against the Adolph R’audnitz Company. Judgment. for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Argued before SEABURY, LEHMAN, and PAGE, JJ.
Walter J. Rosenstein, for appellant.
Nathaniel Cohen, for respondent.

Opinion:
SEABURY, J.
Plaintiff sues to recover damages for the alleged breach of a contract of employment. An examination of the record establishes that the plaintiff failed to prove that a contract for any particular period of time existed between the plaintiff arid defendant. That such a contract was in contemplation is evident, as is also the fact that the parties did not come to any agreement. While this was the situation, the plaintiff did work for the defendant, as he had done for several years prior to that time.
While this work was done in the expectation that a contract would be entered into, the fact remains that there was a dispute between the parties as to what the terms of the contract should be. Under these circumstances, the notification of the plaintiff by the defendant that it would not require his services after a specified date cannot be construed into a breach of contract.
Judgment reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. All concur.