MacDonald v. Long

LlTZ, PRESIDENT:

The defendant, Jacob E. .Long-, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Mineral county decreeing specific performance of an alleged contract of sale of real estate between him and the Pattersons Creek Milling Company, a corporation.

The Milling Company, organized in 1919, owned and operated a grist mill in Mineral county. It possessed no other real estate nor any personalty of consequence. On February 7, 1923, the stockholders owning more than seventy-ffve per cent, of the outstanding capital stock of the corporation attempted to ratify an alleged sale of the mill, at…