Marcy v. Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway Co.

This is an action of contract by which the plaintiff seeks to recover for alleged special services rendered to the defendant while he was its president and a member of its board of directors. Although the plaintiff’s claim was stated by his attorney in opening to be based upon a contract with the defendant, express as to employment but not as to price, the case seems to have been tried on the general ground that the plaintiff might recover if he proved either an express contract of employment, or the performance of services of value to the defendant with the contemporaneous expectation on his…