Pardridge v. La Pries

Citations

• 84 Ill. 51

Syllabus

<p>1. Contract—who liable to person rendering services. Where an employee of a mercantile house, occupying a responsible position, and who sometimes took charge of the delivery of goods sold, employed an express-man to make deliveries, which he did with the knowledge of the firm, or one of its members, and who failed to notify him that he must look to the clerk for his pay, it was held, that the firm was liable to the expressman for his services.</p> <p>2. In such a case, the fact that the clerk made a payment to the express-man, and that he did not call • on the firm for his pay on pay days, it not being shown he knew when they were, and that the clerk, after suit brought, oifered to pay him, to keep from being discharged, will not defeat a right of recovery against the firm.</p>