WOMAN SUES PIE COMPANY.
Claims Receipts Are Being Converted
into Oficers' Salaries.
Mary J. Cleveland, who claims to won more than thirty shares of the stock of the Smith-Yost Pie Company, sued yesterday in the circuit court to restrain B. Howard Smith and C. C. Yost from converting the receipts of the business to their own use. Mrs. Cleveland alleges that she has not received her share of the profits since April 8, 1901. Since that date, she estimates about $16,000 has been earned by the corporation.
Mrs. Cleveland alleges that Smith, who is president, and Yost, who is secretary of the company, told her they took the money for their services as officers. The by-laws of the corporation, she declares, allows the president only $1 a year for his services, and fixes the salary of the secretary at $800 a year. John Lucas, of the law firm of Johnson & Lucas, said last night that as Mrs. Cleveland's attorney he will ask the court for a restraining order and will not ask for a receiver for the corporation.
"It's just a disagreement over salaries, he said, "and we decided this suit the best way to untangle matters."
