Southern Savings Bank v. Dickey

According to the allegations of the petition, the plaintiff’s contract with the defendant was that he was to be paid for his services a salary which at all times was to be only $50 per month less than the salary paid to J. G. Burckhardt Jr. The contract was not for any definite period of time. After paying the plaintiff a salary of within $50 per month of the salary paid to Burckhardt Jr., from October 38, 1936, through 1939, the defendant, on December 31, 1939, paid Burckhardt Jr. extra compensation or bonus, which was in effect additional salary, but failed to pay the plaintiff in the same…