Superior Producing & Refining Co. v. Handlan, Hearne & Co.

LlTZ, PRESIDENT:

The plaintiff, Superior Producing & Refining Company, is a Delaware corporation having its principal office in the city of Wheeling, West Virginia; The defendant, Handlan, Hearne & Company, a West -Virginia corporation, is engaged in the business of broker in said city.

In June, 1918, W. C. Plandlan and Elizabeth Handlan, his wife, D. H. Courtney, Z. F. Robertson and Basil L. Bull-man incorporated under the laws of West Virginia the Vindicator Oil Company, with an authorized capital stock of $100,000.00, to take over certain oil and gas leases in the State of Texas, held by…