Weintraub

Plaintiff’s amended complaint is based on an alleged contract with defendant whereby the former was to have been employed for a period of one year commencing January 18, 1925, as general manager of the latter’s furniture manufacturing establishment and to assist in financing said business. The first count alleges the contract to have been for an agreed compensation of $6,000 for services as general manager and $4,000 as a bonus for assistance in financing the business, or a total of $10,000 for the year; that the employment terminated February 8, 1926, and that no part of such compensation, excepting the sum of $2,195, has been paid. The amended complaint further alleges that the assistance in financing was to commence forthwith and that plaintiff was also to begin familiarizing himself with the conduct of the business and to take over active management upon the completion of a house which he was then building for defendant. The second count is for the balance due for the reasonable value of plaintiff’s services alleged to be in the sum of $7,805. Defendant’s answer denies generally the allegations of the complaint, except it admits that plaintiff was hired as an employee in said…