Jewel Tea Co. v. Petersen
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. John M. Niehaus, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1915.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
4. Contracts, § 285*—what does not constitute abandonment of contract not to engage in same business. Where a contract of employment with a grocery company selling direct to consumers by wagons provides that the servant is employed not only to take orders for and deliver teas, etc., but also “to perform such other duties as the party of the first part may from time to time specify and require of him,” the fact that the duties of the servant are changed during the term of employment from that of wagon man and route agent to office…
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