Wright v. Phillips Fertilizer Co.

Two questions of law are presented upon the record:

1. Is the plaintiff estopped from asserting his claim for salary under the facts of this ease?

2. Is the judgment of the District Court res adjudicataf

The plaintiff alleges that in December, 1919, at a regular meeting of the directors of the corporation, he was employed for a period of five years at a salary of $5,000 a year. The minutes of the corporation, however, for that meeting declare that it was “ordered that Geo. W. Wright be paid a salary of $5,000 for the year 1919.” The plaintiff, George W. Wright, who wrote the minutes of the…