Bell v. Scranton Coal Mines Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered March 28, 1910, upon findings in favor of the defendants, in an action to recover corporate stock under an escrow agreement, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
The defendants Brown, Brynton, and Reynolds, hereafter referred to as Brown, were, at the time of the making of the contract hereafter set forth in full, large stockholders in the defendant corporation, the Scranton Coal Mines Company, hereafter called the company. The company owned no property except a contract for the purchase of certain coal land from Bullock & Bullock, theretofore assigned to it by Brown. Payments were about to mature upon the contract, and the company had no funds with which to meet them. Thereupon Brown agreed to give the plaintiff 20,000 shares of the stock of the…
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