Williamson v. Wadsworth
New York Supreme Court
THIS is an appeal from an order of Justice Potter, made at special term, sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint in this action. The plaintiff brings this action to recover from the defendant, as a stockholder in the Pacific Coast Petroleum Company, of New York, (a corporation formed under the act of 1848,) the sum of $3791.61, being the amount of a certain judgment ' obtained by him against said company for services as a civil engineer and traveling agent.
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THIS is an appeal from an order of Justice Potter, made at special term, sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint in this action. The plaintiff brings this action to recover from the defendant, as a stockholder in the Pacific Coast Petroleum Company, of New York, (a corporation formed under the act of 1848,) the sum of $3791.61, being the amount of a certain judgment ' obtained by him against said company for services as a civil engineer and traveling agent. The plaintiff was employed by the corporation in the capacity of “ civil engineer and traveling agent,” at a salary of $6000…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Clerke, J.
The decision in Aikin v. Was-son, (24 N. Y. Rep. 482,) does not control the question now before us. The case is not analogous. The plaintiff, there, was a contractor for the construction of a portion of the road of the Albany Northern Eailroad Company, of which the defendant therein was a stockholder. He was no more a servant of the company than any manufacturer who contracted to. furnish them with rolling stock—with locomotives_ or passenger cars. None are servants in a legal sense, but those who act in subordination to others, under whose order, direction and control…
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