Arnold v. Scharbauer’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““That defendants should organize, as speedily as possible, a corporation under the laws of the state of Texas, to be known as the Pennsylvania & Texas Oil Company, with a capital stock of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000.00), whose offices should be in Kansas City, Missouri, and Beaumont, Texas, and the par value of whose stock should be ten cents (10 cents) and one dollar ($1.00) per share. It was also agreed that the defendants should furnish one representative man, in addition to themselves, as incorporators of said oil company, ten or eleven in number, at Kansas City and other eastern points, and upon the organization of said oil company defendants should convey to said oil company the lands hereinafter described, and on conveying said land to said oil company defendants were to become the owners of all the shares of capital stock of said oil company. It was further agreed that the defendants should furnish one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) of the capital stock of said oil company, to be disposed of among the directors and shareholders of the said oil company, and should also furnish ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for newspaper and other advertisements, and the defendants should bear the expense of literature, stamps, and other necessary expenses. It was also agreed by plaintiff and defendants that said Western Cattle Brokerage Company or plaintiff should have the exclusive sale of said shares of stock, and for services in making an effort to”

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