Fitzgerald Furniture Co. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This action was brought by the plaintiff in the municipal court of Chicago upon an assignment wherein the plaintiff as assignee sued in its own name for wages and commissions earned and to be earned by the assignor Walter J. Bartlett while in the employ of the defendant.

The suit by the assignee was brought in its own name under the statutory provisions authorizing such suits, ch. 110, sec. 18 of the Practice Act (Cahill’s Ill. Rev. St. 1931).

After a hearing by the court without a jury, the court entered a judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant in the sum of $149.94. From…