Lunham v. Hafner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Leopold Hafner and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 11th day of January, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of said court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
For several years prior to the 1st day of January, 1895, the defendants carried on the business of manufacturing jewelers in the city of New York, under the firm name of Hafner & Kohart, and the plaintiff was in their employ as a salesman. At that date there was due to him from the defendants, for unpaid salary and commissions, an amount which was agreed upon between them as being $1,550. This suit was brought in October, 1895, to recover that amount. The defense was that the plaintiff became a partner of the defendants in the jewelry business on or about the 1st day of…
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