George H. Hill v. The Sharples Corporation

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant, George H. Hill, appeals from a judgment in favor of the defendant, The Sharpies Corporation, dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint after trial before a judge and jury. The complaint contained three counts: first, for contract damages resulting from the failure of the defendant to pay Hill, who had been employed by Sharpies, $177,000 in substitution for commissions allegedly earned by Hill in 1942 but retained by the defendant; second, for damages in fraud for actionable misrepresentations by which Sharpies’ officers allegedly induced Hill to…