Young v. Farwell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, George Wright Young, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, John Y. Farwell, Jr., entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of January, 1898, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day ■ of December, 1897, denying the plaintiff's motion for a new trial made upon…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, George Wright Young, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, John Y. Farwell, Jr., entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of January, 1898, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day ■ of December, 1897, denying the plaintiff's motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, J.:
This action is upon a guantum meruit for the plaintiff’s services ' as manager of one of the departments in the defendants’ drygoods establishment at Chicago, during the last six months of the year 1889. The defense is, that the services were rendered under an express contract and for an agreed compensation; that full payment for such services, in accordance with this express contract, has been made; and that all questions in dispute between the parties upon *491that head have been settled favorably to the defendant’s contention by a judgment of the Circuit Court in Chancery of Cook…
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