Waterman v. Chicago & Iowa Railroad

In this action of assumpsit, Waterman, plaintiff in error, seeks to recover from the Chicago and Iowa Eailroad Company, defendant in error, his salary as president of said corporation for a period of about two years, at the rate of $5000 per annum. The issues were tried in the circuit court before the judge and without a jury, and the questions of law and mixed questions of law and fact involved in the controversy were amply preserved by exceptions to the rulings made on the various propositions submitted. The judgments of the circuit and Appellate courts were against Waterman, and he brought…