Upchurch v. Goodroe

FOSTER, Justice.

This suit is in equity to obtain -the benefits of an agreement for the lease with an option to purchase a textile mill with plant and machinery in Tuscaloosa County, owned by Rosenau.

Complainants, whom we will call Up-church, claim that Goodroe, in whose name the lease and option was made with Rosenau, was acting as their agent for them as an undisclosed principal, and they seek to follow it into the possession of a corporation by the name of Cottondale Mills, Inc., to which it was assigned by Goodroe, and that it be vested in them and out of the corporation. The contract was…