Wells v. Sherrill Hardwood Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Beauregard; Jerry Cline, Judge. Action by James M. Wells against the Sherrill Hardwood Lumber Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLeche, J.
Plaintiff’s suit is for the recovery of $3,333.33 alleged to be due by defendant under a contract of employment.
The defendant operates a lumber plant at Merryville, in the parish of Beauregard, and contracted with plaintiff to enter its service as sales manager, 'for the period of one year, ■at a salary of $4,000 per annum. Plaintiff assumed his duties under the contract on September 16, 1918. Two months thereafter, on November 16, 1918, he was attacked with influenza, a disease then prevailing as an epidemic through the country, and when he *1083recovered, about December 1, 1918, be received from…
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