Shumake v. Basic Metals Mining Corp.

This is an action in eight counts by which plaintiff, T.P. Shumake, the former superintendent of defendant Basic Metals Mining Corporation (then known as Ozark Lead Mining Corporation), has sought to recover from the mining corporation and defendant M.C. Rhodes, its president, certain sums by way of salary and wages alleged to have been earned by plaintiff and some seven of his fellow employees in protecting and conserving the mining corporation's properties at Annapolis, Missouri, for the period from December 17, 1931, when the corporation filed its voluntary petition in bankruptcy and was…