Peek v. Berry

LOONEY, Justice.

The introductory facts as gleaned from appellants’ petition are these: Prior to January, 1939, G. S. Berry and wife Ethel Berry, appellees herein, owned and operated a general mercantile business in the City of Greenville, Texas, and for about ten years prior to that date, Gilmer Peek, deceased, husband and father, respectively, of the appellants, worked for the Ber-rys in their business as general manager and bookkeeper, on a salary and commission basis, but about January 1, 1939, the relationship of the parties was changed, that is, they entered into an agreement by which…