Fisher
Standard Soap Co. v. Fisher
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Tyler, J.
Action for damages for alleged breach of an oral contract. The complaint in substance recites that on the sixteenth day of January, 1923, the parties hereto entered into an agreement whereby defendants agreed to pay to plaintiff John M. Simpson the sum of $32,000 and also agreed to pay into the treasury of plaintiff corporation the sum of $25,000 and of this latter sum $12,500 was to be paid by defendant Paul Fisher and a like amount by defendant Julius Wilbur. That defendants likewise agreed to pay into the treasury of plaintiff corporation a sum of money sufficient to cancel or pay off $40,000 of a total bonded indebtedness of $100,000 which was then outstanding against said corporation. That plaintiff John M. Simpson on his behalf agreed to pay into the treasury of plaintiff corporation the sum of $12,500 and further agreed to pay into such treasury a sum of money sufficient to pay off or cancel $60,000 of the said total bonded indebtedness of the company. That the respective sums of $12,500 to be paid by plaintiff Simpson and defendants Fisher and Wilbur were to be used by the corporation for the general purpose of carrying on its business. That it was further agreed by the…