Michaelson v. Hopkins

This is an action in which the plaintiff seeks to recover one thousand dollars from the defendants because of alleged false representations relative to the value of certain corporate stock. From a judgment of dismissal predicated on a finding hereinafter set forth in full, the plaintiff appeals.

Certain facts are undisputed. The plaintiff, T. S. Michael-son, while attending a stockholders’ meeting of the Olympia Brewing Company in April, 1946, heard of the operations of the Jensvold Manufacturing Company, hereinafter called Jensvold, in which corporation the brewing company owned thirty…