Case ID: ill-app_185/html/0522-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William S. Tait, Appellee, v. Chicago Structural Tile Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 18,941.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Master and servant, § 82
      
      —admissibility of evidence in suit for salary and expenses. In an action against a corporation to recover for money laid out and for salary due, where the contract of employment was in writing and did not provide that-the corporation should pay for certain expenses of plaintiff, exclusion of testimony of the president of the corporation that in a conversation with plaintiff he told plaintiff not to expend any money on behalf of the company as an expense account without his orders, held reversible error.
    
      Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Virgil W. Mills, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in this court at the October term, 1912.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed March 30, 1914.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by William S. Tait against Chicago Structural Tile Company to recover for expenses laid out by plaintiff and for salary due as manager of the defendant corporation. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for $441.13, defendant appeals.
    Stedman & Soelké, for appellant.
    No appearance for appellee.
    
      
      Seo Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the court.