Carroll v. Palmer Manufacturing Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Perkins, J. Assumpsit by William F. Carroll against the Palmer Manufacturing Company for breach of a contract of employment. Judgment for defendant on a directed verdict. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover in this suit a balance which he claims is due him on salary account as traveling salesman while in the employ of the defendant. The claim was made by him upon the trial that he was employed on or about December 15th for one year from and after January 1, 1911, at a salary of $25 per week, and that he was wrongfully discharged some time in April, 1911. The bill of particulars covered his salary from January 1, 1911, to January 1, 1912, at the contract price of $25 per week. This claim was met with the objection that the agreement, being oral, was within the…
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