Perlman v. Thomas Paper Stock Co.

This is a contract action with a decree ordering judgment for plaintiff for $8,900. Defendant appeals from the judgment; and plaintiff from “denial of motion to modify decree” and .from a “portion” of the decree.

Plaintiff filed a “complaint in equity and at law.” In Count I “at law,” he charged defendant with breach of an oral contract by the terms of which plaintiff was to have $500, or 50 per cent of the profits, monthly during the life of a contract for waste paper between the Chicago Tribune and defendant, which latter contract plaintiff claims he induced. He asks judgment. In Count II,…