Young v. Columbia Oil Co. of West Virginia

Woods, Judge:

This suit was instituted by tbe minority stockholders of the Columbia Oil Company of West Virginia for the purpose of baying certain persons, operating as the G-reybull Oil Company, a partnership, by reason of their fiduciary relation to said corporation and the Big Horn Oil & Gas Company, a corporation, declared to be trustees as to certain profits made by them and taken to their own use, and that they be required to account for such profits. The circuit court of Tyler county found for the defendants, and dismissed plaintiffs’ bill.

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