Sears v. Kings County Elevated Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover for the services of the plaintiff.as treasurer of the defendant corporation from January 2,1879, to May 15, 1881. At the trial, in the Superior Court, before Lathrop, J., a verdict was ordered for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions to the exclusion of certain evidence, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The plaintiff, who was a director of the defendant corporation, was elected its treasurer on January 2,1879, immediately after the organization of the company, and so continued until May 15, 1881, when he resigned both offices. No salary was established for the office of treasurer at the time the plaintiff was elected to that position. On June 6, 1879, at a meeting of the directors at which the plaintiff was present, the following votes were passed: “ That the salary of the president be fixed at the sum of six thousand dollars, to date from the organization of the company, and subject to…
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