Brady v. Kern
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Oliver B. Dickinson, Judge. Action by Arthur C. Brady against Martin E. Kern. Judgment for defendant (218 Fed. 862), and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
McPHERSON, Circuit Judge.
Although many facts of this controversy appear already in Judge Dickinson’s opinion refusing a new trial ([D. C.] 218 Fed. 862), it may not be undesirable to restate them briefly in order to bring out distinctly the point on which we think the decision should rest.
Brady, the plaintiff, and Kern, the defendant, were both stockholders, and were otherwise interested, in the International Motor Company. From the beginning of the enterprise all the stock, preferred and common, except the directors’ qualifying shares, had been issued to voting trustees, so that the…
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