Chater v. S.F. Sugar Ref. Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth District. The material facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. A few are added as throwing some additional light upon the case.
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Appeal from the Twelfth District. The material facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. A few are added as throwing some additional light upon the case. Chater arrived in San Francisco, May, 1856; commenced erecting the sugar refinery in July following; and commenced putting in the machinery about August or September, 1856. The machinery was not all in, the roof of the building was not on, and the refinery was not in working order on the seventeenth day of October, 1856, when Chater was seized with paralysis, never left his house thereafter, and died in the summer or fall of 1860. It was…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Field, C. J. and Cope, J. concurring.
This was a bill filed by the plaintiff for the specific performance of a certain agreement made in Hew York between the plaintiff and the defendants, Gordon and Bond, on the fourth of April, 1856. The agreement provided for the formation of a company, to be called the “ San Francisco Sugar Refining Company,” to consist of 1,000 shares of stock, of the nominal value of one hundred dollars per share. This agreement provides that one-third of the stock, or three hundred and thirty-three and one-third shares, were to be issued to J. B. Bond or his assigns,…
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