Magoon v. Marks

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, J.

Defendant took possession of the furniture and undertaking business of one E. A. Williams for the purpose of foreclosing a chattel mortgage thereon but employed Williams to conduct *765the business until the- sale at a salary of twenty-five dollars a week and at the same time or a little later promised an additional one hundred dollar’s for conducting or doing his best in conducting the funeral of the late British Commissioner A. G. S. Hawes. Afterwards Williams sold his claim for the one hundred dollars to the plaintiff who now brings this action thereon. He…