Bristor v. Kretz

This action is brought under the provisions -of section 51 of the Stock Corporation Law (Chap. 688, Laws of 1892), making stockholders of every stock corporation “ personally liable for all debts due and owing to any of its -laborers, servants or employees other than contractors, for services performed • by them for such corporation.”

■The plaintiff is an attorney-at-law, and the services performed by him were professional- services rendered pursuant to a written ■agreement by which the corporation employed him, in the language of the complaint, “ to do .and perform such work as it might place…