Corporations Keyed to Hamilton
Wilderman v. Wilderman
Facts
Plaintiff owns a one half stock interest in a corporation owned by herself and her former husband. Plaintiff claimed that her husband caused excessive and unauthorized payments to be made in the fiscal years ending March 31, from 1971 to 1973. Plaintiff requests that the court return the excess of the payments back to the corporation’s treasury to be treated as corporate profits and required to be distributed as dividends. Defendant performed most of the work for the business which installed ceramic tile and marble facings in residences and commercial buildings. He worked up to sixty hours or more doing most of the estimating, supervising, and business getting for the corporation. The board of directors authorized the defendant to pay himself a salary of no more than $400 a week. However, in 1971, the defendant paid himself an additional bonus of $71,738.71, a salary of $35,000 in 1972, and a total compensation of $86,893.40 in 1973.
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