Louis v. Elfelt

Citations

• 89 Cal. 547
• 26 P. 1095
• 1891 Cal. LEXIS 852

Syllabus

<p>Partnership — Dissolution — Death of Partner — Termination of Unexpired Contract of Employment. — An unexpired contract of employment between a copartnership and an employee for a fixed period, at a fixed salary, is dissolved by the death of one of the partners during, the term of hiring.</p> <p>Id. —Service to Surviving Partners. —If the employee of a copartnership, under an entire contract for a year’s salary at a certain rate per month, continues to serve the surviving partners after the dissolution of the partnership by death during the year, and while the business is being wound up, the implication of law, in the absence of a new special agreement, is, that he was newly employed at a reasonable compensation for the services actually rendered in assisting to settle the affairs of the extinct copartnership.</p>