Baldwin Fertilizer Co. v. Cope

Supreme Court of Georgia
Baldwin Fertilizer Co. v. Cope, 110 Ga. 325 (Ga. 1900)
35 S.E. 316; 1900 Ga. LEXIS 426
Simmons

Baldwin Fertilizer Co. v. Cope

Opinion of the Court

Simmons, C. J.

In the trial of an action for the breach of a contract wherein it is stipulated that the employer is to give the employee sixty days’ trial, beginning at a certain day, and at the end of the trial to give him a year’s employment, dating from the commencement of the trial, provided the employee’s services “ have proved satisfactory,” it is error to instruct the jury in substance that notice of dissatisfaction must have been given within the sixty days. The employer is entitled to a reasonable time after the expiration of the sixty days to give this notice. What is a reasonable time is a question to be passed upon by the jury in the light of the facts of this particular case. Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.

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Baldwin Fertilizer Company v. Cope
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