Orr v. Ward

Citations

• 73 Ill. 318

Syllabus

<p>Contract—construction. By the terms of a contract between plaintiff and defendant, plaintiff, in consideration of a certain sum for the year 1873, and of another sum for thej'ear 1874, to he paid in semi-monthly or monthly installments, agreed to devote his whole time and attention solely to the business of the defendant. Under the contract, plaintiff entered the service of defendant, and continued in it up to June, 1873, when defendant suspended business: Meld, in a suit by plaintiff for damages, on account of being thrown out of employment, that there was no undertaking on the part of defendant to continue plaintiff in his employment for any definite length of time, and that plaintiff could not recover.</p>