Court Opinion

ID: 9648960
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:39:29.571034+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:06.742068
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
POPE, Justice.
Cardinal’s motion for rehearing urges that we have required a retrial upon an evidentiary issue — whether the term “necessary services” imposed upon Maxwell the duty to acquire new business. The true issue, as Cardinal argues, is one which imposes the burden upon Maxwell to obtain a finding that Cardinal did not act' in good faith in discharging him. Maxwell has not complained in this court of the holding by the court of civil appeals that the contract was a satisfaction of the employer contract. Our holding, upon the basis of the record now before us, is that a jury may believe Maxwell’s evidence that he was discharged for a reason which was outside the contract, and thus, conclude that Cardinal did not act in good faith. Upon remand, assuming a record similar to the present one, an issue inquiring about Cardinal’s good faith dissatisfaction with Maxwell’s performance of the contract will suffice.
Either party may file a motion for rehearing within fifteen days from this date.