Lyons v. Webster
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas H. Smith. Bill by Joseph M. Lyons against Joseph D. Webster and others, for specific performance, in which certain of the respondents filed a cross bill. From a judgment dismissing the bill and the cross bill, both complainant and cross complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Prior to August, 1902, the parties to this suit constituted all the stockholders of the Bienville Brewery, an Alarbama corporation having its place of business in Mobile. The Mobile Brewery, an Alabama corporation, was also .engaged in business at Mobile. At that time a “beer war” was being waged in Mobile, in which foreign breweries and the two domestic corporations named above were engaged. This “war” gave rise to the idea that the two domestic corpoiations might be advantageously consolidated, and in November of that year this idea was put into effect by a transfer of all the stock of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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