Brown v. Leach
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles T. Brown, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 11th day of March, 1919, upon a decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
Richmond Levering & Company, Inc., prior to June 27, 1917, owned all the issued stock of the Island Oil and Transportation Corporation of the par value of $22,500,000. The latter corporation owned or controlled valuable oil properties in the Republic of Mexico, including an oil well therein known as “ Tepetate No. 9 ” and a concession for building a pipe line for the transportation of oil from the well to the seacoast for shipment. This well was of great intrinsic value producing from 70,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil a day. The Island Oil and Transportation Corporation did not have the money…
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