YOUNG v. INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CO.

20945

273 S.C. 107 (1979)

254 S.E.2d 681

James R. YOUNG, Appellant, v. The INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Subsidiary of Harte-Hanks Newspaper, Inc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

April 24, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Kendell Few, Greenville, and Harold R. Lowery, Anderson, for appellant.

G. Ross Anderson and Karl L. Kenyon, Anderson, for respondent.


April 24, 1979.

RHODES, Justice:

Appellant commenced this action to recover damages for breach of an alleged employment contract under which he was to serve as editor-in-chief of two daily newspapers, The Anderson Independent and The Daily Mail. The lower court granted summary judgment on the ground that the alleged contract was unenforceable under the statute of frauds. We affirm.

On August 1, 1973, respondent, The Independent Publishing Company,...

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