Nice Ball Bearing Co. v. Bearing Jobbers, Inc. (Two Cases)

SWAIM, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Nice Ball Bearing Company, brought this action to compel the defendants M. H. Lescure and his wife, Marie M. Lescure, to recognize it as the owner of the capital stock of the defendant Bearing Jobbers, Inc., to have the Lescures issue in its name a new certificate for the stock, and for other appropriate relief. The defendants answered denying ownership of the stock in the plaintiff and averred that the plaintiff is barred by the doctrine of' unclean hands from seeking relief in a court of equity. A counterclaim was filed by the defendant M. H. Lescure…