International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Herndon

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought this suit to recover a sum of money which he claimed to be due him as a balance of his salary as a general solicitor, and certain items of expense for which he claims the receivers of appellant had become liable to him pending the receivership, and for which he sought to make appellant liable on the ground that it had received back the property from the receivers, with improvements added and paid for out of the earnings of the road during the receivership.

His claim is based upon the following facts which are alleged in the pleadings and appear from…