Fillebrown v. Hayward
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill ih equity, inserted in a writ of the Superior Court dated May 4,1904, by the trustees in bankruptcy of the Cable Rubber Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, against Kezia W. Hayward of Ponkapog, the former treasurer of the Cable Rubber Company, formerly holding and controlling a majority of the capital stock of that company, and William J. Cable of Boston, praying for an order to compel the defendant Hayward to pay to the plaintiffs…
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Bill ih equity, inserted in a writ of the Superior Court dated May 4,1904, by the trustees in bankruptcy of the Cable Rubber Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, against Kezia W. Hayward of Ponkapog, the former treasurer of the Cable Rubber Company, formerly holding and controlling a majority of the capital stock of that company, and William J. Cable of Boston, praying for an order to compel the defendant Hayward to pay to the plaintiffs certain sums of money alleged to have been taken by the defendant Cable from the Cable Rubber Company and paid to her. In…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
In accordance with a stipulation of the parties the findings of fact in the first paragraph are to be taken as true. If so, it follows that during a period of nearly two and one half years in which the defendant was treasurer of the corporation her salary was increased annually by vote of the board of directors, until it reached an amount which the plaintiffs contend was largely disproportionate to the value of any services rendered.. But if the amount of compensation compared with *478her actual duties seems to be unduly large, yet it is stated in these findings that she and the directors acting…
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