Fred W. Wolf Co. v. Salem

This was a suit in assumpsit by appellee to recover of appellant a balance on account, said to be due for services, commissions on sales and traveling expenses. In 1885 Fred W. Wolf was a manufacturer, at Chicago, of refrigerating and other machinery, and about June 1st of that year appellee entered his employ under a verbal agreement, by the terms of which, as sworn to by appellee himself, he was to receive §100 per month salary, two and one-half per cent commission on sales, and Ms traveling expenses. In 1887 the Fred W. Wolf Company was organized, and sueceeded to the business, having Mr.…