Johnson v. George J. Ball, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that, when contract indicated that parties contemplated that employee would work through the end of a project, contract provided sufficient durational term
• distinguishing the contract in that case from two other cases, Buian v. J.L. Jacobs & Co., 428 F.2d 531 (7th Cir.1970), and Payne v. AHFI/Netherlands, 522 F.Supp. 18 (N.D.Ill.1980
• upholding claim against employer for misleading descriptions of position, which induced employee to relocate
• “Generally, a party may not recover in tort for what is essentially a breach of contract.”
• plaintiff sufficiently alleged cause of action for breach of oral contract of employment for specific term where complaint alleged employer agreed in 1988-89 to employ the plaintiff “through 1991”
• “[m]utual consideration *** is an essential element of a contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).