Mitchell v. St. Louis Argus Publishing Co.

SMITH, Commissioner.

This matter reaches us on appeal from a judgment entered in a court tried case dismissing plaintiffs’ cause of action. Plaintiffs sought certain equitable relief which generally described would have placed them in control of the St. Louis Argus Publishing Company (hereinafter Argus) and ousted the individual defendants from control. Plaintiffs’ right to the relief sought depends on resolution of the ownership of ten shares of stock of the Argus, all of which is claimed by defendant Frank Mitchell, Sr. and 6⅜ shares of which is claimed by plaintiff Edwina Mitchell. The…