Perry v. Simpson Waterproof Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for the breach of a covenant of the defendants, an incorporated company, to employ the plaintiff in their service, ■ and for services rendered under the contract; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. A new trial having been granted in the case (37 Conn.
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Assumpsit for the breach of a covenant of the defendants, an incorporated company, to employ the plaintiff in their service, ■ and for services rendered under the contract; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. A new trial having been granted in the case (37 Conn. R., 520,) it was now tried upon the general issue, closed to the court, before Granger, J. Upon the trial it was necessary for the plaintiff to show the legal incorporation of the defendants, and the fact that Simon Stevens was president, Edwin L. Simpson a director, and Abijah McEwen the secretary of the corporation,…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
We are quite prepared to give our-assent to the doctrine insisted on by the defendants’ counsel, at least SO far forth as to h'old that the admission of a fact, made on. *317and for the purposes of one trial, does not bind the party thus making it, so as to prevent him from disputing the truth of that fact, at another trial. This however is not the question, certainly not the whole question, presented by this motion.
On the trial of this case it appears that it became necessary to prove the incorporation of the defendants, their existence, and that certain persons were officers of the corporation…
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