Whitewater Telephone Co. v. Cory

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson; J.:

This was an action to recover $600 irregularly received as salary by defendant at the close of his term of office as secretary-treasurer of the plaintiff corporation.

Plaintiff alleged that during the year 1922-’23 defendant was a director of the plaintiff corporation and also served as its secretary-treasurer ; that prior to the incumbency of defendant the salary fixed by order of the board of directors for the secretary-treasurer had been $50 per annum, but on the last day of defendant’s term of office he had procured one Jessen, the…