Spindler

This is an appeal from a judgment in the plaintiff’s favor for the sum of $392.40 as the balance due for services rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant in the matter of the sale of certain machinery. The appeal is upon the judgment-roll alone, and the appellant’s sole contention is that the findings do not justify the judgment for the sum declared therein to be the balance due but only for a much smaller sum.

The plaintiff alleged in his complaint that he had performed certain specified services for the defendant which had resulted in the sale of the machinery in question for the sum of $7,950, upon which sale price the defendant had promised to pay plaintiff a commission of fifteen per cent; that the commission thus earned amounted to $1,192.50; “that plaintiff agreed with the defendant to a deduction of $365 from said commission, leaving the net balance thereon the sum of $827.50; that the defendant has paid this plaintiff on account thereof the sum of $285, and that the net balance of said commission unpaid and due and owing from the defendant to the plaintiff is the sum of $540.42, together with interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum from December 1,…