Roberts v. E. H. Stanton Co.

Citations

• 49 Wash. 23
• 94 P. 647
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 517

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Officers—Salary—Failure to Perform Services —Tortious Acts Preventing Performance — Liability for. The secretary of a corporation is not entitled to recover salary for two months during which he remained away and performed no services, where it appears that he had sold all his stock in the corporation except one share and had organized and acquired an interest in a rival concern, and that the manager had demanded that he resign or sell out his interest in the rival concern; since his conduct indicated that he had elected to comply with such demand; and in any event the corporation would not be liable for the tortious acts of the manager in preventing performance of the services, in the absence of authority or ratification by the corporation.</p>