Fuller v. Little

This was an action brought by Little against Fuller to recover damages for breach of a contract alleged to have been made between the parties by which the plaintiff agreed to pay the defendant a year’s salary at the rate of $60 per week in consideration of the defendants services as stage manager at a place of amusement called Wood’s Museum, in the city of Chicago. The defendant sold the museum on the 1st of August, 1869, and the question in this case was, whether he had previously engaged the plaintiff for the season, commencing on the 1st of August and terminating on the 1st of the next…