Mack Realty Co. v. Beckley Hardware & Supply Co.

Hatcher, Judge:

The G. C. Murphy Company is a Pennsylvania corporation engaged in a chain store business. The plaintiff, Mack Realty Company, is another Pennsylvania corporation, and according to the testimony of one of its officers “is just the real estate department of the G. C. Murphy Company, and is owned body and soul by the G. C. Murphy Company. ’ ’ The defendant, Beckley Hardware & Supply Company, is a West Virginia corporation engaged in the hardware mercantile business in the city of Beckley. In 1924 defendant’s board of directors conferred authority on T. E. Bibb, its president and…