Jenney Electric Co. v. Branham

— The appellee sued the appellant for the reasonable value of services, rendered by agreement, in effecting a sale of electrical machinery. Upon the trial the appellee, as a witness in his own behalf, was permitted, over the appellant’s objection, to testify that the appellant’s president had stated to him that the company “paid from ten to fifteen per cent, for that kind of work.” There was, upon the entire evidence of the appellee, a conflict as to whether the alleged statement Avas a part of the conversation constituting the employment, or in a. sub*316sequent conversation. However, the…