No-Leak-O Piston Ring Co. v. Chandlee

SMYTH, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for specific performance of a contract made by George H. Chandlee with the Automobile Accessories Company (herein called the Accessories Company), a corporation, of which one Norwood was president and chief stockholder, owning 95 per cent, of 'the shares. Before the institution of the suit the corporation changed its name to No-Leak-0 Piston Ring Company, the appellant. For brevity we refer to it as the Ring Company. Chandlee died after answering, and the suit was revived in the name of Edward Irvin Burns, as executor of his will.

Chandlee was a member of…