Hauser v. Watson

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether the trial judge was justified in taking from the jury plaintiff’s claim for salesman’s commissions and limiting his recovery as a matter of law to $25 instead of a much larger sum he claimed.

Plaintiff went to work for defendant company as an automotive salesman in mid-June 1944 under a verbal understand*699ing with the company’s branch manager, E.T. Rayner. A week or so later Rayner handed plaintiff a copy of a letter written by him to the company’s main office, reciting that plaintiff had been employed at $300 per month plus two percent…