Illinois Supreme Court, 1862

Pfund v. Zimmerman

Pfund v. Zimmerman
Illinois Supreme Court · Decided April 15, 1862 · Caton
29 Ill. 269

Pfund v. Zimmerman

Opinion of the Court

Caton, C. J.

This judgment must be affirmed. The evidence in this case does not show a hiring for any specified time. The salary of $1,000 per year, as testified by the witness, was a rate of compensation for the time for which the plaintiff should serve, and not a specification of any particular term of service, agreed upon.

The first instruction asked for by the defendants was most properly refused. There was not a particle of evidence tending to show that the plaintiff had been guilty of embezzlement, and in such a state of the proof, it would have been highly improper for the court to have given an instruction implying that there was evidence tending to show he had committed such a crime.

The judgment is affirmed. Judgment affirmed.

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