Curtis v. Swan Island Club, Inc.

This is a bill in equity filed on April 8, 1933, by Frederick I. Curtis, executor of the will of Frederick W. Curtis, deceased. The bill seeks to enforce the obligation of the defendant to carry out its contract with the decedent to pay for his membership share in the defendant corporation, in accordance with the provisions of art. 5 of the defendant’s by-laws and votes of the defendant’s shareholders and directors pursuant thereto. Frederick W. Curtis died on June 2, 1931, and the defendant, at a meeting of its shareholders on May 13, 1932, fixed the price of the share at $3,200, which sum…