Meleny v. Library Bureau

The appellee’s statement of this case seems to us accurate and we adopt it substantially.

Meleny, the appellee, brought this suit against the Library Bureau, an Illinois corporation, to recover a balance claimed to be due under a contract of employment for the year 1905. He served the company as general manager. His contract for that year gave bim a yearly salary of $6,000 and “in addition 25 per cent of the earnings of the business after first taking out $20,000 from the profits.”

The salary of $6,000 was paid from month to month, and on account of the additional compensation he collected…