Teeple v. Hawkeye Gold Dredging Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court.— Hon. J. H. Richards, Judge. Action at law to recover the money value of certain shares of the capital stock of the defendant company, to which plaintiff claims he was entitled, and which defendant refused to issue to him. There was a directed verdict in favor of plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
As conceded in the pleadings of both parties, the defendant is a corporation organized under the laws of the province of British Columbia, Dominion of Canada. The answer fixes the time of its organization as of date May-19, 1904, and this is nowhere questioned in the record. In his petition plaintiff alleges that in May, 1904, he entered into an oral contract with one B. B. Bliss;, a representative of the defendant company, by the terms of which he, plaintiff, was to sell stock of the company, and for every ten shares sold by him he was to become entitled to, and the company was to issue to…
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