New York Court of Common Pleas December 15, 1871 (Smith v. Douglass)

By the Court.*—Bobinson, J.

—By the agreement between plaintiff and the defendants, upon which the first statement of a cause of action was founded, the defendants employed him as clerk in their mercantile agency establishment, for five years, from April 15th, 1857, at a salary increasing by $100 a year, from $600 to $1,000," payable in equal monthly instalments; and he” agreed so to act for them