Bawden v. Taylor
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal -from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Farlin Q. Ball, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
On March 4, 1908, Frederick J. Bawden, the appellant, and William H. Taylor, one of the appellees, were stockholders of the Taylor Publishing Company, organized under the laws of this State, engaged in the publication in Chicago of a trade journal called The Engineer. There were twelve hundred shares of capital stock, of which Bawden owned four hundred, Taylor four hundred and fifty-one, two employees forty-nine, and three hundred were in the treasury. On that day Bawden and Taylor entered into a written contract by which Bawden gave Taylor an option for ten days to purchase his four hundred…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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