Mabee v. Hersum

This is an action of contract. The first count of the declaration alleged that “ the defendant on or about August 1, 1920, promised and agreed with the plaintiff that if she would buy seventy-one shares of stock in Hersum and Company, a Massachusetts corporation, by whom she was at that time employed as bookkeeper and of which he was at that time majority stockholder, he would pay her a salary, and dividends upon said shares, with the proceeds of which she could pay for said shares upon in-' stalments. And the plaintiff says that in consideration of; the said promise of the defendant she paid…