Boozer v. Blake

FOSTER, Justice.

The demurrer on this appeal presents the question of the sufficiency of a bill in equity, and the petition for mandamus presents the ruling of the court on a motion to strike parts of it for impertinence.

We will first consider the demurrer to the bill as last amended, which was sustained by the court and the bill dismissed.

Briefly the bill is for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of all the capital stock in an Alabama corporation, known as Muscle Shoals White Lime Company, owned by the respondents Mrs. Emma B. Yourtree, J. H. Werner and W. C. Roberts, who are…