Shapiro v. Shapiro

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

Bennard and Merton Shapiro, brothers, filed a complaint in equity against their parents, Samuel and Edna Shapiro, seeking to compel performance of certain written agreements. By these agreements, Samuel and Edna Shapiro bound themselves to sell to each of their sons ten shares of their stock in the Arcadia Theatre Company for $1,675 per share, at any time within three years from the date of the agreements. The option agreements acknowledged receipt of $1,000 from each of the sons, to be credited to the total purchase price.

Edna Shapiro, although a defendant of…