Evans v. Stern Co.

The plaintiffs, former employees of the Industrial Furnace Corporation, bring these actions to recover wages due them against the defendant, a stockholder of said corporation, pursuant to section 71 of the Stock Corporation Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 59).

The Industrial Furnace Corporation manufactured and sold electric annealing furnaces. The plaintiffs, college graduates, were employed by the corporation, their principal duty being to travel about the country instructing people who had purchased furnaces in the method of operating them. One of the plaintiffs, Evans, was sent to Russia for a period…