Appellate Court of Illinois, 1918

Wall v. Italian Vineyard Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided March 12, 1918 · Barnes

209 Ill. App. 578

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

3. Master and servant, § 81*-—when burden on defendant in action by servant. for breach of contract of employment. In an action to recover damages for breach of a contract of employment, the burden is on defendant to show the value of plaintiff’s services to himself in a business undertaken by him after the breach as well as to show any other fact which might reduce plaintiff’s damages.

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