Ryder v. Jacobs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 194, Jan. T., 1897, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., May T., 1894, No. 57, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to recover salary and for money loaned. Before Livingston, P. J. Tbe facts appear by tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 194, Jan. T., 1897, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., May T., 1894, No. 57, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to recover salary and for money loaned. Before Livingston, P. J. Tbe facts appear by tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court. At tbe trial defendant proposed to ask a witness, H. C. Weidler, wbo had been a teacher of bookkeeping for seventeen years at the bead of tbe Lancaster Business College, and wbo bad testified to bis experience in keeping partnership books, this question: “ Please look at tbe ledger before you, pages 2 and 10, being tbe accounts of W. M.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The plaintiff, as appears by his statement filed, brought suit to recover a balance of $2,606.14, with interest from April 1, 1894. He averred in his statement that defendant owed him the greater part of this amount, under a verbal contract by which he was employed as a salesman of tobacco and cigars of which defendant was a manufacturer; that by this contract he was to be paid $200 per month and traveling expenses; the payments to be made monthly; that he served under this contract from January 18, 1893 to April 7, 1894, a period of about fifteen months; that under…
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