Sibley v. Stetson & Post Lumber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Pemberton, J., entered March 22, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of tbe plaintiff, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, C. J.
Plaintiff sued to recover a bonus alleged to have been agreed, by one of defendant’s officers, defendant would pay to plaintiff in addition to a monthly salary for services as salesman and office man. The alleged bonus was payable yearly at the end of each year of employment in the sum of between four and five hundred dollars. There is testimony that, at the end of the first year, an officer of defendant company requested plaintiff to agree to a post*205ponement of the payment of the bonus, holding out to plaintiff that there would be added compensation accruing to plaintiff for the delay. The…
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