Legal Opinion
Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company v. Hattie A. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 1, 1957No. 16344PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Filed on the 21st day of June, 1956, by appellees as former stockholders of the defendant, a corporation in liquidation, the suit was for the rescission of the sales to it by them of their shares aggregating 1156, and for an accounting.
Put forward in a lengthy complaint, the claim in brief was: that the company, through its president and vice-president, had fraudulently conceived and as fraudulently executed a scheme by and through which it had induced plaintiffs to sell their stock in the company for $400 a share, an insignificant part of the $2000 a share which it was…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Ex Parte National Enameling and Stamping CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Hudson v. NewellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1949
- R. D. MacKintosh v. Estate of Henry M. MarksCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
- Mytinger & Casselberry, Inc. v. Numanna Laboratories Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- Lester L. Tatum, Individually and as Trustee v. H. W. BlackstockCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company v. Hattie A. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Lynch Corporation, an Indiana Corporation v. Omaha National Bank, a National Banking CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
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