Martin v. Tully

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment of nonsuit in favor of defendants, and from an order denying plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial. The complaint which charged fraud on the part of defendants, through the medium of which one of them was successful in purchasing the stock holdings of plaintiffs in that company, was dismissed as to all but two of the defendants, and it was in favor of these that the nonsuit, the subject of this appeal, was granted.

The Reserve Oil and Gas Company, hereinafter called the Reserve, was incorporated in 1932, the plaintiffs acquiring their interests in…