Case ID: ill-app_205/html/0557-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Fred G. Hunter, Appellee, v. Bush Hat Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 22,859.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Master and servant, § 84
      
      —when evidence sufficient to support verdict. Evidence in an action for wages, examined and held to support the verdict.
    2. Appeal and error, § 1749*—when judgment affirmed. On appeal from the finding and judgment in an action to recover wages, held that no error of law or procedure appeared justifying a reversal of the judgment.
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles H. Bowles, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed May 21, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Fred Gr. Hunter, plaintiff, against the Bush Hat Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover wages alleged to be due. Defendant put in a set-off for the value of certain property alleged to have been retained by plaintiff. On the cross-action plaintiff denied the indebtedness and claimed a settlement. On the trial before the court there was a finding against both the claim and the set-off and a judgment against plaintiff for costs, from which defendant appeals.
    William B. Jarvis, for appellant.
    John M. Rankin, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vals. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.