Chapman v. Witherspoon

Appellee sued appellant upon an oral contract to pay $350, and recovered verdict and judgment, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

At the inception of the trial the sufficiency of appellee’s pleading was drawn in question by general demurrer, which the court overruled, and which on this appeal is assigned as error. As a consequence it is necessary to recite the substance of the facts alleged in appellee’s petition. Omitting formalities, they are these: At the time of making the oral agreement sued on appellee was employed by appellant, a real estate broker, at an agreed monthly salary, on…