Sterling Lumber & Investment Co. v. Wilkinson

Wilkinson obtained a jury verdict in the amount of $7,438.33 in an action involving a contract. From the judgment based on that verdict the Lumber Company comes here by writ of error.

Wilkinson, operating as a salesman under a written contract with the Lumber Company, had a certain sales territory. He was compensated on a commission basis for sales which he negotiated in that territory — the percentage varying according to the material and amount sold, the maximum being sixty per cent of the Lumber Company’s profits on sales of Forest products in carload lots. In 1942 Wilkinson learned that…