GRAYSON v. PRIDE GOLF TEE COMPANY

No. 7615.

433 F.2d 572 (1970)

Harry GRAYSON, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. PRIDE GOLF TEE COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 18, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert P. Zabin, Boston, Mass., with whom Joseph Schneider and Schneider & Reilly, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Lane McGovern, Boston, Mass., with whom Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff brought this action for breach of an oral contract of lifetime employment. At the close of plaintiff's case the district court granted defendant's motion for directed verdict. We affirm. Our affirmance of such a disposition of what would ordinarily be a case for a jury requires a comprehensive statement of the evidence.

Plaintiff in 1957 was, through a corporation, General Products Corporation, in the business of making and...

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