Tilton v. Whittemore

This is an action of contract to recover from the defendants unpaid dividends which the plaintiff alleges are due him from them by virtue of a written contract dated November 24, 1900, by which the plaintiff agrees to purchase of the defendants one thousand dollars’ worth of Sedalia Copper Company-stock at $10 per share on certain conditions, namely, that the defendants agree to repurchase the stock on November 24,1901, for the sum of $1,000 if the plaintiff so desires, and that they guarantee to pay him “ dividends amounting to not less than 8% per annum on the above one thousand dollars’…