Frazee

In this action plaintiff sought to recover eight hundred dollars, alleged to be due him as the balance of salary upon a contract made with defendant whereby he was employed by the latter as a director of the production of motion pictures for a compensation of two hundred dol lars per week and a royalty on all pictures so produced. Judgment went for defendant, from which plaintiff appeals.

[1] By answer defendant denied the alleged making of the contract, or that it ever at any time employed plaintiff in any capacity or agreed to pay him any compensation for services rendered to it, or that it agreed to pay plaintiff a .royalty on the pictures produced under his direction, and further denied that plaintiff, as alleged, worked for it from July 17, 1916, to January 14, 1917, or worked for it at all; in accordance with all of which denials the court found in favor of defendant.

Plaintiff’s first contention is that the findings are without sufficient support. It appears from plaintiff’s testimony that about July 16, 1916, in the city of Los Angeles, he was by oral agreement employed by A. Carlos, acting for and on behalf of defendant, at a salary of two hundred dollars per week, in…