Citations
- 65 Ill. App. 418
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Mr. Presiding Justice Pleasants
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Appellant was extensively engaged in the egg and poultry trade, having its headquarters at Indianapolis, with places of business and managers in charge over a wide extent of territory. According to a contract between the parties dated April 30, 1891, under seal, and sufficiently exacting, appellee entered its employ as such manager at Greenup, in Cumberland county, 111., for a period of twelve months from its date, at a salary of ten dollars per week.
Just eight and a half weeks before the expiration of the year he was discharged, and for the rest of the time was unable to find employment, though he diligently sought it. Thereupon he brought this suit before a justice of the peace, which resulted, on appeal, in judgment upon a verdict for $85 damages and for costs. A motion for a new trial was interposed, overruled and exception duly taken.
The case went to the jury upon the single and uncomplicated ■ question whether there was reasonable cause for his discharge.
"We have not examined the record, because the abstract, though meager, shows evidence amply sufficient to support the verdict. Some of it comes from witnesses called by the defendant. Any discussion of it, or comjjarison of the weight of the