Court Opinion

ID: 5405553
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 15:59:51.446439+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:34.993952
License: Public Domain

MacLean, J.
(Dissenting.) Something of a blight is cast upon the plaintiff’s case by his falsehood in the verified complaint, wherein he alleged (upon information and belief, it is true) that the defendant was a corporation when he made the arrangement, evidenced in writing, upon which he based his action, although he must have known the contrary, for he testified on the trial that he was one of the incorporators, and that the incorporation came months after he obtained his “ contract ” from a, so to say, intending promoter, who never had any actual connection with the defendant company. The plaintiff’s case rests upon the plaintiff’s testimony which, taken as true, only shows that he was employed by certain persons engaged in an enterprise which was afterwards in*208corporate!, and that after the incorporation he continued at work, receiving at the first the same salary as before, and then less. There was no evidence of the adoption by the defendant corporation of the “ contract.” The plaintiff himself said there was nothing said by the officers about his contract. “ There was nothing said at all about my contract. That was too well understood.” The evidence was insufficient to sustain the judgment in favor of the plaintiff, who was merely continued as employee in the business after the incorporation under an implied promise to pay, without any agreement as to the time. Morrison v. Ogdensburgh & L. C. R. R. Co., 52 Barb. 173; Tucker v. Phila. & R. C. & I. Co., 53 Hun, 139; Mason v. Secor, 76 id. 178. In my opinion, the judgment should be reversed and the complaint, verification and testimony of the plaintiff submitted to the grand jury of the county.
Judgment affirmed, with costs to respondent.