Brown v. Snyder
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ernest 0. Brown, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York oh the.21th day of February, 1900, setting aside the verdict of a jury in favor of the-plaintiff and ordering a new trial of the action.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The plaintiff appeals from an order setting aside a verdict in his-favor and directing a new trial of the action.. He sued to recover compensation upon an alleged contract of employment, setting forth in his complaint that in August, 1895, the defendant was the president of the Missouri' Gas Company of Kansas City, and Was individually the owner of the greater part of the stock of that corporation, which was a competitor of the Kansas City Gas Company, which latter corporation was the owner of the sole gas productive plant for supplying gas to the general public in Kansas City…
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