White v. Mandel Bros.

Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff sued defendant to recover salary and commissions claimed for the year 1923, under a written contract for his employment as buyer and manager of defendant’s furniture department. His claim was for over $12,000. A trial was had without a jury. At the close of plaintiff’s case defendant’s motion for a finding was allowed, and a judgment was entered thereon for plaintiff for $192.28, an amount admitted to be due on his semi-monthly salary from December 15 to December 21, 1923, when he was discharged. This appeal followed.

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