Sullivan v. New Orleans Stave & Heading Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The minutes of a directors’ meeting of the defendant company disclose that on the 21st of June, 1889, the plaintiff was employed as its manager, in the manufacture of “headings.”

The purpose of the company, as expressed in its charter, was to manufacture “headings,” with power, under its said charter, to manufacture staves also. He was manager for the defendant from the said date to some time in 1891.

The board, at the said meeting, ordered “that at the end of each business year a trial balance be taken, and after all the indebtedness shall…