Edmonds v. White

Appellee was the plaintiff in the court below. His suit against appellants, T. A. Edmonds, T. G. Williams, A. R. Bleakley, F. L. Shackelford, and W. G. McIntyre, was to rescind certain contracts covering a purchase by him and purchases by a number of other persons of shares of stock, in the Southland Oil Company, a joint-stock association existing by virtue of a trust agreement, by the terms of which appellants (except McIntyre) as trustees held the property of the association and transacted the business thereof, and to recover back sums aggregating $10,450 alleged to have been paid by him…