Austin v. Socony Vacuum Oil Co.

Charles E. Austin and Margaret Austin, his wife, filed a bill of complaint in which they alleged that, as owners of certain shares of stock in the Sunny Service Oil Company and other companies, they entered into negotiations for the sale of the stock with the Hickok Oil Corporation of Ohio and A. S. Hickok, acting for themselves and the Socony Vacuum Oil Company, a New York corporation, Sun Oil Company, a New Jersey corporation, and Pure Oil Company, an Ohio corporation. Plaintiffs claim that at the time they did not know that these latter companies were being represented as undisclosed…