HURT v. COTTON STATES FERTILIZER CO.

No. 11122.

145 F.2d 293 (1944)

HURT v. COTTON STATES FERTILIZER CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. J. Durant, of Miami, Fla., for appellant.

Charles J. Bloch and Ellsworth Hall, Jr., both of Macon, Ga., for appellees.

Before HOLMES, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff's father, and testator, owned stock in the defendant corporation which he residuarily bequeathed to the plaintiff, and five others. When the then sole surviving and qualified executor, being financially unable, declined to bring suit for alleged fraudulent acts of the corporate management, plaintiff and his sister-in-law purchased all of the stock held by the executor and shortly thereafter filed suit herein.

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