Case ID: ill-app_209/html/0496-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Louis C. Krueger, Appellee, v. Roxford Knitting Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 23,699. (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Master and servant, § 32
      
      —what is ground for termination of contract of employment. Misconduct of an employee, consisting in withholding money in his hands and in peculation in his expense account, is ground for termination of a contract of employment.
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hugh R. Stewart, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in this court at the October term, 1917.
    Reversed and judgment of nil capiat here.
    Opinion filed March 5, 1918.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Louis C. Krueger, plaintiff, against Box-ford Knitting Company, a corporation, defendant, for wages and damages claimed upon a discharge of plaintiff by defendant. From a judgment for $468.50 for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    Budolph Frankenstein, for appellant.
    William A. Morrow, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.