Hudson Real Estate Co. v. Tower
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover the amount of a subscription by the defendants, as copartners, for ten shares of stock in the plaintiff corporation. After the former decision, reported 156 Mass. 82, the case was tried in the Superior Court, before Bond, J. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
It was heretofore decided in this ease, that until the organization of the corporation the defendants’ subscription was a mere proposition or offer which might "be withdrawn, like any other unaccepted offer. 156 Mass. 82. The principal question which the plaintiff now seeks to present is, whether, upon the evidence and under the ruling of the court, the jury were warranted in finding a legal withdrawal or revocation of the subscription.
The only withdrawal or revocation relied on occurred in an interview between one of the defendants and Henry Tower, on August 81st, 1889, and in view of the…
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