Bartlett v. Mystic River Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, inserted in a writ dated August 2, 1887, brought by Joseph E. Bartlett against the Mystic River Corporation, which was incorporated for the purpose of filling and otherwise improving certain flats in the Mystic River, to recover, among other things, for personal services alleged to have been rendered by Bartlett to the corporation while its president, at various times from 1850 to 1887. The case was referred to a special master, who, among other findings for…
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Bill in equity, inserted in a writ dated August 2, 1887, brought by Joseph E. Bartlett against the Mystic River Corporation, which was incorporated for the purpose of filling and otherwise improving certain flats in the Mystic River, to recover, among other things, for personal services alleged to have been rendered by Bartlett to the corporation while its president, at various times from 1850 to 1887. The case was referred to a special master, who, among other findings for the plaintiff, found for him in the sum of $17,000, “ for special services rendered the defendant from July 16, 1870, to…
1Opinion of the Court
0. Allen, J.
It is contended by the defendant, in the first place, that there ivas no contract either express or implied to pay for the plaintiff’s services. The master found that the defendant settled with the plaintiff in full for services rendered by him prior to July 16, 1870; and that the plaintiff did not rest his claim for services rendered since that date upon any special contract, but upon the ground that an obligation is implied and imposed on the corporation to pay him, inasmuch as its officers knew he was rendering the services, and in many cases requested him to render them, and…
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