Hawkins v. Hawkins

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

Cutting through all extraneous matters, this is a claim by John Harold Hawkins to recover a “manager’s bonus” for the years 1964 and 1965 while managing a Western Auto Associate Store owned by Howard E. and Eleanora J. Hawkins. The trial court awarded judgment to the plaintiff-John Harold Hawkins. We affirm.

There was substantial evidence for the trial court to have found the following. In the summer or early fall of 1963, Howard Hawkins decided to purchase a Western Auto Associate Store in DeSoto, Missouri. He entered into an agreement with his brother John to manage…