Legal Opinion
Strauss v. Cohen Bros.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided March 30, 1912No. Gen. No. 16,339PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John H. Hume, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Duncan
Ben Strauss sued Cohen Brothers Company, a corporation, for a balance of account of $566.68, alleged to be due him as salary and expenses as its traveling salesman. Cohen Bros. Company filed a set-off in the sum of $1,180.18 for advances made by them to Strauss in excess of the amount due him as such salesman, whom they alleged to have been employed at certain commissions on the amount of goods sold by him for it. In a trial before the court Strauss recovered a judgment of $366.62. The corporation prosecutes this writ of error.
The contentions of the parties to this suit are over the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Street v. Chicago Wharfing & Storage Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1895
- Mittel v. KarlIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
- Clark v. MalloryIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
- Webbe v. Romona Oolitic Stone Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1895
- Western Railway Equipment Co. v. Missouri Malleable Iron Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1900
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