Court Opinion

ID: 9746964
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 14:47:52.121291+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:18.839420
License: Public Domain

CLIFFORD, J.,
concurring in judgment.
An offer of employment “at the rate of $80,000 per annum to be paid semimonthly” so obviously contemplates an employ*110ment at will rather than for a fixed term that I see no need to imperil the nation’s forests in making the point. “Our life is frittered away by detail * * *. Simplify, simplify.” Henry D. Thoreau, Walden 91 (J. Lyndon Shanley ed., 1971 (1854)).
This case is readily distinguishable from Willis v. Wyllys Corp., 98 N.J.L. 180, 119 A. 24 (E. & A. 1922); but because Willis now represents little more than a curious anachronism, a quaint relic of times past, I join the Court in overruling it.
CLIFFORD, J., concurs in result.
For modification; affirmance and remandment — Chief Justice WILENTZ and Justices CLIFFORD, HANDLER, POLLOCK, O’HERN, GARIBALDI and STEIN — 7.
For reversal — None.