Segall v. Loeb
Decision Date | 28 June 1928 |
Docket Number | 3 Div. 838 |
Parties | SEGALL et al. v. LOEB et al. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Rehearing Granted Oct. 25, 1928
Rehearing Denied Nov. 30, 1928
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Walter B. Jones Judge.
Bill for specific performance by Victor Loeb and others against Nathan Segall, H.H. Green, and others. From a decree overruling a demurrer to the bill, respondents Segall and Green appeal. Reversed and remanded.
Hill Hill, Whiting, Thomas & Rives, of Montgomery, for appellants.
Steiner Crum & Weil, of Montgomery, for appellees.
To state the substance of the averments of the bill as pertinent to the questions presented for decision: On October 16, 1925 Fleming-Green Company, Inc., and for some time prior thereto, was engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling mayonnaise and other like products, under the trade-name of "Piknik," and had established an extensive business and good will with customers in several of the states; its products being sold to retail merchants for resale to their customers.
The appellants Nathan Segall and H.H. Green owned the entire capital stock of the corporation, consisting of 45 shares of the par value of $100, and, up to the time the contract now involved was entered into, were in full control, as officers of the corporation, of the corporate business, and the corporation under their management had incurred certain liabilities, recognized to be just by the appellants.
On the date above mentioned appellants, for a valuable consideration, sold the stock of the corporation to the complainants, Victor Loeb, Raphael J. Loeb, and Milton J. Winter, the contract for the sale of said stock being evidenced by written contract, attached to, and made an exhibit to, the bill. Attached to the contract and made a part thereof is a schedule of the assets of the corporation and its liabilities as then recognized by the appellants, and certain provisions in the contract are made for full liquidation and settlement of these recognized liabilities.
The contract which designates appellants as the parties of the first part and the Loebs and Winter as parties of the second part stipulates:
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