Boone v. Missouri Iron Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Missouri. The bill was filed by Thomas, in his lifetime, and referred to a complicated history of transactions, running from 1836 to 1848, the date of the bill. A condensed narrative of these transactions is given in the opinion of the court. The circuit court dismissed the bill, and the coihplainants appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
This is an appeal from the circuit court of .the United States for the district of Missouri.
The bill prays the specific execution of a contract between Thomas and the Missouri Iron Company, dated 15th August, 1839, which requires the defendants to give up and cancel the notes of Thomas to Nancy Bullett, for $10,000, dated 2d November, 1836; to pay a debt due to Martin Thomas; to sell or transfer, on the books of said company, for the use of the complainant, $43,000 worth of stock of said company, or, in the alternative, that the American Iron Company may be decreed to reconvey the one…
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