King,a Library Sciences Student,was Hired at $400 a Week to Catalogue

question 29

Multiple Choice

King,a library sciences student,was hired at $400 a week to catalogue the library of the very wealthy Earle family.He estimated that the work would be completed in early August,giving him a month of vacation that he felt he badly needed.For the first three days on the job,he was kept busy running errands for Mr.Earle,who had a sprained ankle,and keeping Mr.Earle from getting bored.On the fourth day,Mrs.Earle was using the library for her bridge club and a meeting of her church Flower Committee,and on Friday she kept King busy running errands for the dinner party she was giving that night.After two weeks of this,King quit and took a labouring job for $275 a week.

• A)If a court agrees that the Earles' behaviour rendered the performance of the contract impossible,King may be able to recover the difference between the salaries for the two jobs.
• B)Since King was getting paid,it was irrelevant that he was not able to do the cataloguing and,when he quit,he breached the contract.
• C)If the Earles can convince a court that King abandoned the contract,he will get nothing.
• D)b and c.
• E)None of these.

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