Stewart v. Rutterer

Citations

• 29 Ohio C.C. Dec. 547
• 29 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 145

Syllabus

<p>CONTRACTS — MASTER AND SERVANT.</p> <p>Judgment of Employer, not “Reasonable Men” Controls Construction of Phrase in Contract of Employment to Satisfaction of Employer.</p> <p>When a contract of employment provides that work contracted for shall be done to the satisfaction of the employer, he is at liberty, acting in good faith, to discharge the employee without regard to the question whether the discharge would appeal to reasonable men as justified. Highland Buggy Co. v. Parker, 27 O. C. C. 115 (5 N. S. 383), and Lake Erie & W. Ry. Co. v. Tierney, 29 O. iC. C. 83 (8 N. S. 521), affirmed without report, not followed.</p>