Montana Breach Of Contract Legal Questions

If you had an agreement to do specified work for specified compensation, you had a contract.  This does  not sound like a type of contract which is required to be in writing to be enforceable, like a contract to sell real property or a contract which can't be performed withon a year. As it was not written down, the question is what the terms of that contract were - were thay as you say (i.e. you performed all the work required) or as the customer says (i.e. you agreed to perform more work, or better work, for the money you were paid).  If you can't reach an agreement with the customer, a judge or jury would have to decide. Complicating this is the fact that you had no license.  Depending on what kind of services you performed, you may have been legally required to be licensed, and your contract may be unenforceable without one.  This could mean, again depending on what type of work you performed and local MT law (with which I am not familiar) that you would either have to refund all the money, or that you would only be entitled to keep the fair market value of the services you performed, even if that is less than the amount contracted for.... Read More

Assuming that this is the same corporation and just a new owner, or that your contract was assigned to a new owner, your contract remains valid.  You have no obligation to accept any changes.  HOWEVER, does the contract contain any restrictions on the trucking company's right to fire you?  If not, the trucking company is within its rights to fire you unless you accept the new payment structure.  For example, if your contract provides that you will haul three loads a week for $500 per load until the end of 2015, with no means of terminating the agreement, then you have the right to haul 3 loads a week at $500 per load until the end of 2015.  But if your agreement only says that you will be paid $500 per load for all loads you haul, the trucking company has to pay you $500 for any load you haul, but does not (absent factors not mentioned in your question) have any obligation to use you to haul anything, so that if you don't agree to different pricing, the company doesn't have to use you.... Read More