Stone v. Northwestern Sleigh Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: The complaint alleges, in effect, that in January, 1886, the defendant, a corporation of Wisconsin, at Milwaukee, employed the plaintiff, Geo. W. Stone, Jr., as traveling salesman for the term of one year, for $1,200 and expenses, payable monthly, from which he was discharged without cause September 16,188’6, and for which he claims damages.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: The complaint alleges, in effect, that in January, 1886, the defendant, a corporation of Wisconsin, at Milwaukee, employed the plaintiff, Geo. W. Stone, Jr., as traveling salesman for the term of one year, for $1,200 and expenses, payable monthly, from which he was discharged without cause September 16,188’6, and for which he claims damages. The defense is, in effect, that such employment was by the month, and for no definite term, and the settlement therefor and payment…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The testimony on the part of the plaintiff tended to prove that in January, 1886, at Milwaukee, one John A. Chapman, in behalf of the defendant, employed the plaintiff for the term of one year, substantially as alleged in the complaint. One of the plaintiff’s witnesses, Linderman, having testified in relation to a conversation between the plaintiff and Chapman in January, 1886, at the time of the making of the alleged contract, was asked by the plaintiff’s counsel on his direct examination, and before he rested, this question: ¡“ Did you at any time after this have any conversation with the…
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