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  "name": "Richard J. Ross, Plaintiff in Error, v. R. J. Ross Manufacturing Company et al., Defendants in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Ross v. R. J. Ross Manufacturing Co.",
  "decision_date": "1913-11-04",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,667",
  "first_page": "180",
  "last_page": "180",
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      "cite": "183 Ill. App. 180"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Richard J. Ross, Plaintiff in Error, v. R. J. Ross Manufacturing Company et al., Defendants in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice F. A. Smith\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice F. A. Smith"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Vincent D. Wyman and Otto W. Jurgens, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Alfred E. Barr, for defendants in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Richard J. Ross, Plaintiff in Error, v. R. J. Ross Manufacturing Company et al., Defendants in Error.\nGen. No. 18,667.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCorporations, \u00a7 289 -\u2014directors cannot increase their salaries as officers. A resolution by the majority of the board of directors of a corporation to increase their own salaries as officers is illegal and void, and a complaining stockholder need not establish the fact of the unreasonableness of the salaries.\nError to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard E. Burke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1912.\nAffirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded with directions.\nOpinion filed November 4, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nBill in equity by Richard J. Ross against the R. J. Ross Manufacturing Company, a corporation, and Frank Drab, Harold Coleman and R. W. Preble, to declare void a resolution of board of directors increasing their salaries and for other relief. From a decree partially denying relief, complainant brings error.\nVincent D. Wyman and Otto W. Jurgens, for plaintiff in error.\nAlfred E. Barr, for defendants in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vois. XI to XIV, same topic and section number."
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