Starr v. Engineering Contracting Co.

Lightner, District Judge.

The finding in the district court was for the plaintiffs, and defendants appeal. There seems to be some question in the minds of the attorneys, at least in the minds of defendants’ attorneys, as to the kind of a lawsuit this is. They claim that it is a suit for specific performance. We will discuss this claim later in this opinion. That which precipitated the lawsuit was the attempt by the defendant White, owner of 90 shares of the preferred stock and six of the ten shares of the common stock that had been issued, and therefore the owner and controller of a majority…