Christmas SHop Manager Case

Contract Law


Christmas Shop Manager


 A manager is under a one-year contract for $3,000 a month to manage the production and

sales of a company’s Christmas line of goods

 In November, a crucial time, the manager goes to his boss and says that one of their

competitors has offered him a job at $4,000 a month if he starts immediately

 The boss offers the manager a new contract of $3,500 a month and both tear up their copies

of the old contract

 In February, the boss fires the manager and says that there was no deal because he was

already bound to work for him, and he cannot sell the same thing twice

 The manager sues the boss for his job

 By tearing up the original contracts they have now made it null and void. Therefore, the

store owner would not be paying for the same thing twice as there was an end to the

previous contract. Both signed a new contract stating that the managers new pay was for

one year at $3,500 a month. The old contract was no longer valid as the signatures had been

torn and both parties entered the new contract to create a binding legal agreement