61 Ga. 36 | Ga. | 1878
The plaintiff sued the defendant to recover damages for wrongfully discharging him from its employment, as superintendent, and to work the defendant’s streets for the year 1871, under a contract made with him. On the trial of the case, after the plaintiff had closed his evidence, the defendant made a motion to non-suit the plaintiff’s action, which motion the court granted and the plaintiff excepted.
It appears from the evidence in the record, that the contract made by the defendant with the plaintiff was for the term of one year, and that he was discharged about the 10th of August of that year. The plaintiff proposed to prove at the trial that he worked the streets properly and in accordance with his contract, when counsel for defendant admitted that plaintiff did work the streets properly and in accordance with his contract, and it also appears that the defendant paid the plaintiff for his services as stipulated in the contract, up to the time of his discharge.
It is true that it was stipulated in the contract that “ the street committee shall judge of the faithfulness and sufficiency of said contractor and the hands he may have em
Let the judgment of the court below be reversed.