Jones v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed April 2, 1896, against James F. Brown, administrator of the estate of James W. Brown, and the Walker Stetson Sawyer Company, a corporation, to compel the specific performance of a written agreement. Hearing before Morton, J., who ordered a decree for the plaintiffs; and the defendant Brown appealed to the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The plaintiffs and James W. Brown, the first named defendant’s intestate, were members of a private trading corporation, which received its certificate of incorporation on December 20, 1888. It had a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, divided into one thousand shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each. Of this stock Brown owned four hundred shares, two of the plaintiffs owned one hundred and fifty shares each, and the other three plaintiffs owned one hundred shares each. On December 31, 1888, the parties entered into an agreement, reciting their ownership of the shares…
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