Mercantile Investment & Holding Co. v. Gilliland

The plaintiff recovered a $50,000.00 judgment against defendant for unpaid salary. Defendant took writ of error. (In the same action the plaintiff suffered an involuntary nonsuit on other counts of his declaration for breach of contract. See Gilliland v. Mercantile Investment & Holding Company, decided at this term.)

The theory of plaintiff’s case submitted to the jury was: first, special assumpsit wherein he claimed defendant named him for a ten-year period at an annual salary of $15,000.00 to act in various official capacities with Hollywood, Inc., a company holding valuable properties of…