Jordan v. Taylor

COLT, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill in equity brought by the complainant, one of the residuary legatees under the will of Eben D. Jordan, to set aside a sale of 375 shares of stock of the Globe Newspaper Company, made by the defendant executors Jordan and Nichols to the defendant Taylor, and praying that the defendant Taylor may be ordered to transfer to the executors the said stock upon their payment to him of $375,000, the amount paid for the stock. Eben D. Jordan, in his lifetime, executed an agreement with Taylor that he might purchase from his estate, within three months after his death,…