Sale Contract Validity After Breach of Ancillary Employment Obligation

An individual who purchased a business on the condition that the seller would remain employed for a set period, later dismissed the seller without cause, leading the seller to sue for breach of contract. The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal, affirming that while the employment contract was stipulated as essential to the sale agreement, the subsequent termination of the employment, even if a breach of the ancillary obligation, did not automatically nullify the main contract of sale, which had already been executed, as the economic balance of the sale itself was not fundamentally disrupted by the termination of the employment arrangement.