McCartney v. Clover Valley Land & Stock Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Utah; J. A. Marshall, Judge. Action by H. M. McCartney and others against the Clover Valley Land & Stock Company. There was a judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
AMIDON, District Judge.
The plaintiffs are real estate brokers residing at Los Angeles, Cal., and the defendant is a Utah corporation owning a large ranch in the state of Nevada. Several years prior to the transactions here involved, the company had sold its personal property and ceased active business. The only property which it owned was the ranch, which it was desirous of selling or exchanging for productive property. It was a close corporation consisting in the main of four controlling stockholders. Its president was old and in poor health so that he was unable to perform the duties of his…
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