Engstrum v. McCart

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

In a suit for specific performance plaintiff obtained a judgment ordering the issuance to him of 70 shares of stock in a corporation which had acquired ownership of an invention in which he had a twenty percent interest. Defendants in the suit have brought this appeal.

Because defendants elected to offer no evidence the facts are revealed entirely by the testimony of plaintiff. The transaction had its origin in an agreement evidenced by a written contract between defendant Paul Engstrum and the plaintiff Samuel W. McCart, an attorney. The contract was dated March 18, 1948,…