STRAUS v. MADDEN

[No. 196, September Term, 1958.]

219 Md. 535 (1959)

150 A.2d 230

STRAUS ET AL. v. MADDEN

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Gilmore, Jr., with whom were Conroy, Williams, Nylen & Gilmore and M.J. Cuff on the brief, for the appellants.

John I. Heise, Jr., with whom was Murdaugh S. Madden on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The trial court entered a decree for the rescission of a transaction or series of transactions between Bartholomew Properties, Inc. ("the Company") and Ralph D. Rocks (sometimes referred to below as "the Purchaser") and his nominees or straw parties, the defendants Justine A. Straus and Dorothy M. Parkison. The suit was originally brought on July 15, 1957, by Margaret L. Madden, a minority stockholder of the Company...

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