{
  "id": 2850646,
  "name": "Henry J. Spruhan, Plaintiff in Error, v. The Searchlight Gas Company, Defendant in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Spruhan v. Searchlight Gas Co.",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-10",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,041",
  "first_page": "380",
  "last_page": "381",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 380"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Henry J. Spruhan, Plaintiff in Error, v. The Searchlight Gas Company, Defendant in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCorporations, \u00a7 296*\u2014when evidence insufficient to prove agreement for treasurer's salary. In an action against a corporation to recover a salary as treasurer alleged to be due pursuant to an agreement recorded in the minutes of defendant\u2019s board of directors, a judgment for defendant was sustained, it appearing, that no such salary was provided by the corporation\u2019s by-laws, nor by any resolution passed by the board of directors, that the minutes of the board did not disclose any provision for a salary and that no contract of any kind for such salary was proved by plaintiff.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Barnes"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Charles E. Selleck, for defendant in error; John S. Bountree, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Henry J. Spruhan, Plaintiff in Error, v. The Searchlight Gas Company, Defendant in Error.\nGen. No. 19,041.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Geobge J. Cowing, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 10, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Henry J. Spruhan against The Searchlight Gras Company to recover a salary for services rendered the defendant for a certain period at two hundred and fifty dollars per month, alleged in the statement of claim to be pursuant to an agreement recorded in the minutes of defendant\u2019s board of directors. From a judgment in favor of the defendant, plaintiff brings error.\nHenry W. Leman, for plaintiff in error.\nCharles E. Selleck, for defendant in error; John S. Bountree, of counsel."
  },
  "file_name": "0380-01",
  "first_page_order": 406,
  "last_page_order": 407
}