Stacy v. Cherokee Foundry & MacHine Works
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Cherokee, December, 1903. Action by F. G. Stacy against Cherokee Foundry and Machine Works. From Circuit order reversing magistrate’s judgment, defendant appeals. cites: This Court zvill review legal conclusion reached by Circuit Judge on appeal from magistrate: 15 S. C., 80; 39 S. C., 338; 41 S. C., 166; 39 S. C., 55. There must be an express agreement to pay a director for serzjices performed as an officer: 29 Pa. St., 535; 49 Pa., 118; 134 Pa.
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Before Townsend, J., Cherokee, December, 1903. Action by F. G. Stacy against Cherokee Foundry and Machine Works. From Circuit order reversing magistrate’s judgment, defendant appeals. cites: This Court zvill review legal conclusion reached by Circuit Judge on appeal from magistrate: 15 S. C., 80; 39 S. C., 338; 41 S. C., 166; 39 S. C., 55. There must be an express agreement to pay a director for serzjices performed as an officer: 29 Pa. St., 535; 49 Pa., 118; 134 Pa. St., 348; 28 Am. R., 584; 4 Wend., 625; 118 N. Y., 629; 75 Mich., 568; 55 la., 104; 130 Mass., 395; 3 D. R. A., 378; 16 L. R.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
This appeal involves the right of the plaintiff to recover from the defendant the sum of eight)''-eight dollars, as compensation for his services as treasurer of the defendant company, from 25th February, 1902, to last days of January, 1903 — a period of eleven months. The suit was commenced and tried before a magistrate, whose judgment was against the plaintiff, who appealed therefrom and secured the verdict of the magistrate reversed and a judgment in his, plaintiff’s, favor for the sum of $88. The defendant now appeals', and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bowen v. Carolina, &c., Railway Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1891
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