EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES, INC. v. GREENING

No. 5094.

265 A.2d 287 (1970)

EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES, INC., Appellant, v. Paul C. GREENING, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 5, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Harrison Pledger, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Charles E. Pledger, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

James J. Bierbower, Washington, D. C., entered an appearance for appellee but filed no brief.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether under the statute of frauds1 parol evidence was properly used to interpret an informal memorandum written and signed by an employer some nine months after an oral promise to pay the employee a certain annual salary. A jury returned a verdict for appellee-employee manifesting a finding that appellant had agreed to pay the employee $25,000 for services during 1960, and that...

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