Case ID: ill-app_202/html/0056-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harriette L. Cowin, Defendant in Error, v. Arctic Fur Shop, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 20,125.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Habby M. Fisher, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1916.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed November 15, 1916.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Harriette L. Cowin, plaintiff, against the Arctic Fur Shop, a corporation, defendant, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, to recover for breach of a contract of employment. To reverse a- judgment for plaintiff for $200, defendant prosecutes a writ of error. Defendant contracted to employ plaintiff as a milliner for six months, but discharged her before the expiration of such period, claiming that she refused to obey orders and was guilty of improper conduct towards defendant’s customers.
    Samuel J. Richman, for plaintiff in error.
    Henry Roth, for defendant in error.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Master and servant, § 84
      
      —when evidence sustains judgment for. wages. In an action to recover for breach of a contract whereby defendant agreed to employ plaintiff as a milliner for a named period, but discharged her prior to the expiration of such period, where defendant claimed that the discharge was justified, evidence held to sustain a judgment for plaintiff.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor

delivered the opinion of the court.