Pringle v. Producers' Turpentine Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Winston Over-,ton, Judge. Action by H. T. Pringle against the Producers’ Turpentine Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
Plaintiff, former manager of the defendant company, brought this suit to recover the sum of $9,727.10, with interest thereon at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum from the 11th day of February, 1909.
I-Ie began his term of employment on the 7th day of October, 1907, to end on the Gth day of October, 1912, at a salary of $208.33 per annum.
1-Ie was an employe of the company about three months before he contracted with the company to become its manager.
Plaintiff obligated himself to produce the first year (upon 5,000 acres of pine land, averaging not less than 17,000 feet of long leaf yellow pine…
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