PRODUCTION OIL COMPANY v. Johnson

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is by Production Oil Company from a judgment for $4,600 for a balance of salary claimed to be due by the appellee, Clayton Johnson.

The appellant owned a large acreage of oil and gas leases in Wolfe and Lee Counties. Its executive office was in Detroit and its field office in Campton, Kentucky. The appellee’s wife, Mrs. Edna W. Johnson, who resided in Campton with her husband, owned one-fourth of the company’s stock and was its secretary and local treasurer or paymaster. By an oral contract made in November, 1954, the appellee was employed by the appellant as…