Skilton v. Payne

Averring the employment of plaintiffs as agents for the sale of defendants’ merchandise within a designated territory,, the complaint exhibits a contract by which the defendants agree to pay plaintiffs a percentage on sales within that territory made by the defendants themselves; alleges such sales, but to what amount the plaintiffs do not know and cannot discover except from the defendants, and demands an accounting as to such sales, and judgment for any commissions that may be thus ascertained to be due to the plaintiffs. In substance and effect, therefore, the complaint is a bill in…