Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company v. Hattie A. Johnson

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a final decree ordering a rescission of sales of corporate stock made in 1953, granting plaintiffs a pro rata portion of assets realized by a liquidation of defendant corporation, ordering an accounting by defendant, and making permanent a temporary injunction, already issued.

The opinion and order granting the temporary injunction were reported at D.C., 143 F.Supp. 826. This order was affirmed at 5 Cir., 242 F.2d 45. This case was reported on the merits at 159 F.Supp. 104 in a twenty-seven page opinion where District Judge Benjamin C. Dawkins, Jr.,…