Block v. W. W. Kimball Co.

Full title: August Block, Appellant, v. W. W. Kimball Company, Appellee

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: May 20, 1940

305 Ill. App. 492 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

27 N.E.2d 481

Opinion

Gen. No. 40,937. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed May 20, 1940

MASTER AND SERVANT, § 61^_ — action for wages, sufficiency of evidence. In action for wages based on oral contract, court properly entered judgment for defendant notwithstanding the verdict, where plaintiff claimed he was to head a production department in making pianos, and was to receive as compensation money remaining after paying all men in the department, but he received about $50 per week, which defendant claimed was the maximum, he made no claim for more money until some years later, and the 5-year statute of limitations barred action for alleged unpaid portions.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Municipal Court of Chicago; Hon. JOHN T. ZURIS, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in first division, first district, this court at October term, 1939.

Schachner Siegan, Charles C. Spencer and Richard M. Spencer, for appellant;

Alden, Latham Young, for appellee;

Carl R. Latham and Norman A. Korfist, of counsel.

Opinion by JUSTICE O'CONNOR.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed May 20, 1940.