Doyle-Kidd D. G. Co. v. Ingram

A. T. Ingram, the defendant in error, sued the Doyle-Kidd Dry Goods Company, the plaintiff in error, and recovered judgment in the sum of $2,990. The contract relied upon by the plaintiff was oral and, as stated by him in his evidence, is as follows:

“The agreement was that they would place a man in the store and the business would go on in the regular way; that when there would be a shortage in any part of the dry goods it would be replaced. We would go right along with the business and check it at the end of each month. I would be paid a salary of $150 a month and their man would, and then…