Reinhard v. Grand Rapids School Equipment Co.

Defendant brings this case here for review on numerous assignments of error against a judgment of some $16,000 obtained against it by plaintiff in the superior court of Grand Rapids, based on a claimed contract for commissions while a salesman in defendant’s employ during the year 1917. The controversy involves the nature, validity and performance of plaintiff’s contract of employment for that year. Defendant is a corporation owned and controlled by four stockholders, all officers and actively connected with it, named Schravesande, Fox, Fortier and Matheson. In 1913 the four men purchased a…