Smith v. Douglass

By the Court.*—Bobinson, J.

—By the agreement between plaintiff and the defendants, upon which the first statement of a cause of action was founded, the defendants employed him as clerk in their mercantile agency establishment, for five years, from April 15th, 1857, at a salary increasing by $100 a year, from $600 to $1,000," payable in equal monthly instalments; and he” agreed so to act for them and ihevr successors and assigns, under ihevr direction and control in all things for that period. It was provided, that if defendants or then1 successors should become dissatisfied with him, they…