Kroeger v. Stop & Shop Companies, Inc.

13 Mass. App. Ct. 310 (1982)

432 N.E.2d 566

ROBERT H. KROEGER

vs.

THE STOP & SHOP COMPANIES, INC.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 10, 1981.

March 16, 1982.

Present: GOODMAN, PERRETTA, & KASS, JJ.

Lawrence H. Adler for the plaintiff.

Paul F. Ware, Jr. (Joan I. Milstein & Andrew S. Hogeland with him) for the defendant.

KASS, J.

For a decade the plaintiff, Robert H. Kroeger (Kroeger), scaled the corporate ladder at The Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. (Stop & Shop). His annual bonuses, added to his salary, were such as to stimulate Kroeger in 1961 to ask for a deferred compensation arrangement.…