Case Name: HAROLD R. LOVE v. NATIONAL CREDIT CLOTHING COMPANY
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1928-06-15
Citations: 174 Minn. 573
Docket Number: No. 26,714
Parties: HAROLD R. LOVE v. NATIONAL CREDIT CLOTHING COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 174
Pages: 573–574

Head Matter:
HAROLD R. LOVE v. NATIONAL CREDIT CLOTHING COMPANY.
June 15, 1928.
No. 26,714.
John T. Bohwedder and F. J. Donahue, for appellant.
Clarence T. Lowell, for respondent.
Reported in 219 N. W. 913.

Opinion:
Taylor, C.
Plaintiff alleged in his complaint that he had rendered services for defendant as an accountant and income tax specialist which resulted in a saving to defendant of more than $1,000 in the amount of its income tax, and that the reasonable value of such services was 25 per cent of the amount so saved. He asked judgment for the sum of $250. The answer denied each and all the allegations of tbe complaint. Tbe court directed tbe jury to find a verdict for plaintiff for the reasonable value of his services, and they returned a verdict for the amount claimed. Defendant appealed from an order denying its alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.
The record discloses numerous errors in excluding evidence by which defendant sought to prove that it had never employed plaintiff, and that no reduction or saving whatever had been effected in the amount of its income tax as assessed and fixed by the revenue department some considerable time before plaintiff claims to have performed any services in the matter. For these errors a new trial must be and is granted.