Parrott v. Jacobson

Citations

• 27 Wash. 265
• 67 P. 589
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 388

Syllabus

<p>COMMISSIONS BASED ON AMOUNT OE SALES-ACTION TO RECOVER-DESTRUCTION OE MEMORANDA OE SALES-AMOUNT ESTABLISHED BY COMPARISON.</p> <p>In an action by a clerk against his employer to recover commissions on sales of goods under a contract which provided that he should have a stipulated per cent, of all sales of a year in excess of a certain sum, evidence on the part of the clerk of the amount of business transacted during a portion 01 the year is admissible for the purpose of establishing by comparison the amount of business for the whole year, where his employer had destroyed the daily sale slips so as to prevent the clerk from actually ascertaining what the sales from time to time amounted to.</p>