Mallory v. Mallory Wheeler Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover a salary claimed to be due the plaintiff as chief manager of the business of the defendant corporation under a contract with the corporation; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and heard, upon the demurrer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s reply to the defendant’s special defense, before JF. B. Hall, J. Demurrer sustained and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The plaintiff in this case claims to recover the sum of $3,294.44, the balance of salary which he says is due to him for services rendered as chief manager and director of the business of the defendant from the first day of January,'1889, to the first day of January, 1890.
The defendant is a manufacturing corporation organized under a charter from the General Assembly approved March 25th, 1884, and an amendment thereto accepted on the 8th day of April, 1885. The corporation succeeded to the business which, prior to said dates, had been carried on by a partnership of the name of Mallory,…
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