Grindeman v. Woodland Shingle Co.

Citations

• 66 Wash. 240
• 119 P. 615
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1050

Syllabus

<p>Work and Labor — Contracts—Performance or Breach — Termination — Damages—Measure. Under a contract to work for one year, the employee to forfeit all pay if he breached the contract, and to receive no compensation while sick or disabled, in an action for the compensation and wrongful discharge, a verdict that he was not damaged, limited to the sum due at the time he quit, is warranted, where there was evidence that he quit when sick and disabled, and could not have earned any more under the contract than he did elsewhere during the term, and also that the contract was voluntarily terminated by mutual consent.</p>