Magruder v. Hagen-Ratcliff & Co.

Lovins, Judge:

This action in assumpsit was brought by Medley C. Magruder in the Circuit Court of Cabell County, West Virginia, to recover from the defendant, Hagen-Ratcliff & Company, a corporation, the amount allegedly due plaintiff as the winner of a contest between defendant’s salesmen.

Plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a travelling salesman, his average weekly earnings being about sev.enty-five dollars. Defendant was one of several affiliated corporations, all of which were engaged in selling groceries at wholesale.

Sometime in September and October of 1943, the president of the…