Mutual Oil Co. v. Hills
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana; Geo. M. Bourquin, Judge. Suit by H. G. Hills against the Mutual Oil Company. From a decree for plaintiff, defendant appeals. This is a suit in specific performance, brought by Hills, plaintiff, against the Mutual Oil Company, defendant, to require the performance of an agreement for the sale of stock in the defendant company, and for accounting.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana; Geo. M. Bourquin, Judge. Suit by H. G. Hills against the Mutual Oil Company. From a decree for plaintiff, defendant appeals. This is a suit in specific performance, brought by Hills, plaintiff, against the Mutual Oil Company, defendant, to require the performance of an agreement for the sale of stock in the defendant company, and for accounting. It is alleged by plaintiff that before December 18, 1909, the corporation authorized Greenlees, its president, to make ail arrangements necessary to enable defendant to…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above).
[1] It is urged by defendant that it was error for the court to decree that the defendant corporation should cause to be issued and delivered to plaintiff certificates for 30 shares of its stock. The assignment of error is predicated upon certain evidence that Hills had bought stock for himself in the corporation in open market within two years of the date *260of the trial of the case, and that under such circumstances equity would not interfere, but would leave the plaintiff to his remedy at law. While ordinarily, complete and satisfactory remedy for failure to…
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