Klarr v. Heckart

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment which the circuit court entered in favor of the defendants after it had sustained a demurrer to the second amended complaint. To facilitate convenience, we will refer to the challenged pleading as the complaint. The demurrer charged that the complaint failed to state a cause of action.

The complaint alleges the facts which we will now set forth. In March, 1951, the defendants, husband and wife, owned a hardware store which they wished to sell at the price of $176,000; the plaintiff was in the defendants’ employ at that time “as a clerk in…