Free v. the Successful Merchant

Defendant in error, Joseph H. Free, filed his bill for an accounting in the circuit court of Cook county against Charles Lane Bowes, the Successful Merchant, an Illinois corporation, and the General Millwork Company, a Maine corporation, to recover certain salaries and commissions alleged to be due him. The defendants filed a joint and several answer, in which they denied the right to recover. Prior to the hearing before the chancellor it was stated that the only issue was to determine what were the terms of the contract between the parties, that the testimony should be limited to that…