Dalton v. American Ammonia Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for the alleged breach of an agreement in writing to employ the plaintiff as a salesman for one year from September 15, 1913, at a salary of $50 a week and all travelling and other reasonable expenses and a further compensation payable at the end of the term of two hundred and fifty shares of the capital stock of the defendant of the par value of $10 a share.
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Contract for the alleged breach of an agreement in writing to employ the plaintiff as a salesman for one year from September 15, 1913, at a salary of $50 a week and all travelling and other reasonable expenses and a further compensation payable at the end of the term of two hundred and fifty shares of the capital stock of the defendant of the par value of $10 a share. Writ in the Superior Court dated June 8, 1914. The defendant filed a plea puis darrein continuance, setting up that, by reason of the judgment for the plaintiff in the action in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston,…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
This is an action of contract to recover damages for breach of a written agreement to employ the plaintiff as a salesman from September 15, 1913, to September 15, 1914, at a weekly salary of $50, and further compensation, payable at the end of the term, of two hundred and fifty shares of the capital stock of the defendant corporation at its par value of $10 a share. The writ is dated June 8, 1914. There was evidence that the defendant discharged the plaintiff on April 11, 1914. On April 13 the plaintiff brought an action in the Municipal Court .of the City of Boston on an account annexed, —…
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