Cohen v. Stein
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. There was a verdict for the plaintiffs for $750, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
It is clear that the contract set .up in the complaint was void under the statute of frauds. It was a verbal agreement, and by its terms was not to be performed within one year from the making thereof. As stated in the complaint, the plaintiffs and defendants, about the 26th of February, 1883, entered into a verbal agreement by which the plaintiffs, for a term commencing April 15, 1883, and ending May 1, 1884, agreed to render their joint services to the defendants for a compensation of $50 a week. It will *509be seen that this contract comes within the express language of the statute (sec. 2307,…
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