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  "name": "Rudolph M. Eppstein v. George L. Webb, Assignee",
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      "Rudolph M. Eppstein v. George L. Webb, Assignee."
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        "text": "Shepard, J.\nAppellant was a traveling salesman in the employ of the insolvent Ayres & Wygant Company.\nThe services he rendered were under the provisions of a written contract with said corporation bearing date June 20, 1890. By the terms of the contract lie was to receive $2,500 a year in salary and guaranteed commissions, $1,800 being payable in monthly installments of $150 each, and the remaining $700 as guaranteed commissions, being payable at the close of the year\u2019s business. Traveling expenses to be paid by the corporation.\nThe appellant continued in such employment until the corporation failed and made an assignment in October, 1891. Thereupon he petitioned the County Court to allow him a balance of $757.18 due him, as a preferred claim against the said insolvent estate.\nThe County Court found appellant was not66 a laborer, servant or employe within the meaning of the statutes authorizing a preferential payment out of the assets \u201d of said insolvent estate, and dismissed the petition without prejudice to appellant\u2019s right to prove his claim against the estate and participate pro rata in the distribution of its assets. The case comes here by appeal from that judgment.\nThe precise question has been decided by this court in Epps v. Epps, 17 Ill. App. 196, and that decision is approved in Signor v. Webb, assignee, 44 Ill. App. 338.\nThe principal question involved here was also involved in the case last referred to, and we refer to the opinion in that case as stating all that is necessary in addition to what has already been said.\nThe judgment of the County Court is right and will be affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Shepard, J."
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      "Messrs. Griffin & Wile, for appellant.",
      "Messrs. Hllmann & Hacker, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Rudolph M. Eppstein v. George L. Webb, Assignee.\nMaster and Servant\u2014In solvency of Master\u2014Recovery of Wages\u2014Preference\u2014Traveling Salesmen.\nA traveling salesman is not \u201c a laborer, servant or employe within the meaning of the statutes authorizing a preferential payment out of the assets \u201d of his insolvent employer\u2019s estate.\n[Opinion filed May 4, 1892.]\nAppeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Fbanjc Scales, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. Griffin & Wile, for appellant.\nMessrs. Hllmann & Hacker, for appellee."
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