Hathaway v. Clendening Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Clendening Company, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 23d day of April, 1909, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Hew York Special Term, directing an accounting.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The plaintiff alleges that the defendant employed him as general manager of a hotel apartment house and- agreed to pay him for his services a fixed salary of $1,200 per year, and in addition thereto a sum equal to ten per cent of the net profits, and, that such net profits amounted to $16,000, and that the defendant neglected and refused to account to the- plaintiff therefor or to pay him his percentage thereof, and judgment is demanded that the defendant account for such profits and pay him such sum as might be due him thereon.
The defendant plead that the plaintiff had an…
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