Chisholm v. Preferred Bankers' Life Assurance Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Ingham; Person, J. Assumpsit by D. Hewitt Chisholm against the Preferred Bankers’ Life Assurance Company for the breach of a contract of employment. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The plaintiff’s action rests upon a contract of hiring under which he claims that he engaged to solicit life insurance, for which service the defendant agreed to pay him $100 per month for two months, beginning November 20, 1893, and that he should receive a commission on certain business, also a premium for which agents of his class were to compete, if his business should entitle him to it. He claims that he .was wrongfully discharged, and brings action to recover the balance of his salary of $100 per month, and the premium of $50, which he claims to have earned, waiving a claim for…
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