Craig v. Baggs

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The first question presented is whether the court erred in overruling the exception of law to the plaintiff’s objection to the admission in evidence by the auditor- of the testimony of the defendant that the operating expenses of his business for the period from November 1, 1936, to April 30, 1939, was the lump sum of $16,929.29. It appears that the plaintiff and the defendant were working under a contract by which the plaintiff was to receive as his commission twenty per cent, of the net income derived'from the operation of the defendant’s business, which…