HAYNES v. UNITED STATES

No. 45724.

50 F.Supp. 238 (1943)

HAYNES v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

June 7, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. W. Spalding, of Washington, D. C. (S. L. Herold and Pike Hall, both of Shreveport, La., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Daniel F. Hickey, of Washington, D. C., and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert N. Anderson and Fred K. Dyar, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, JONES, and MADDEN, Judges.


MADDEN, Judge.

On April 17, 1936, plaintiff sold his 567½ shares of the stock of the Haynes Production Company to the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana. On the same day all the other stockholders in the Haynes Co. also sold their shares, to Standard, the total number of all the shares, including plaintiff's being 1,750. For all the shares, Standard paid in cash $3,663,141.04, which was divided ratably among the sellers, and promised to pay $10,000,000 more, in...

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