Maginn v. Lancaster
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. D. D. Fisher, Judge. STATEMENT. The suit was commenced on December 16,1891, by plaintiff filing in the St. Louis Circuit Court the following petition (omitting caption): “Plaintiff states that on August 18, 1866, George I. Barnett, trustee, Thomas O’Reilly, and defendant, Richard D. Lancaster entered into an agreement in writing, herewith filed, in words and figures as follows, to-wit: “It is agreed between George I. Barnett,…
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. D. D. Fisher, Judge. STATEMENT. The suit was commenced on December 16,1891, by plaintiff filing in the St. Louis Circuit Court the following petition (omitting caption): “Plaintiff states that on August 18, 1866, George I. Barnett, trustee, Thomas O’Reilly, and defendant, Richard D. Lancaster entered into an agreement in writing, herewith filed, in words and figures as follows, to-wit: “It is agreed between George I. Barnett, trustee of Elizabeth Barnett, Thos. 0 ’Reilly and R. D. Lancaster, all of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri,- as…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
The execution of the two agreements set out in the petition was admitted. It appears from the evidence that after O ’Reilly and Lancaster had been paid the $25,000, which they had paid into the corporation, with ten per cent interest thereon, and after Barnett had transferred twenty-five shares of his stock to O’Reilly, as per agreement of August 18, 1866, he *125voluntarily transferred sixteen shares of his stock to Lancaster for the reason, as Lancaster testified, that he (Lancaster) had collected and paid out for the corporation the whole $45,000 expense in the construction of the building…
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