Sweet v. Leach
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mason B. Loomis, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit brought by appellee against appellants, to recover an alleged balance claimed by him for services as-salesman for appellants in the hat and cap trade. There was a verdict and judgment for $246.29 for the plaintiff in the court below, and the defendants bring the case here by appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWilson, J.
Appellants were wholesale dealers in hats and caps, in the city of Chicago, and appellee was employed by them as salesman for the year 1877, at a salary of $2,500. During the year he lost some time by sickness, and appellants having-paid him all his salary except the sum of $246.29, declined to pay that balance by reason of the time lost. In reply to the defense of lost time, appellee, on the trial, offered evidence of an alleged custom of the trade to make no deduction from the salaries of salesmen for time lost by sickness.
We have carefully examined the evidence submitted to the jury, and…
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