Palais Du Costume Co. v. Beach
Palais Du Costume Co. v. Beach
Opinion of the Court
This action came to this court on appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, and pursuant to section 3939, Revised Statutes 1909-, was transferred by us to the Springfield Court of Appeals, which court affirmed the judgment of the trial court. [See Palais Du Costume Co. v. Beach, 144 Mo. App. 456, 129 S. W. 270.] All proceedings in the Springfield Court of Appeals having been held void under the decision of our Supreme Court in State ex rel. St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision Co. v. Nixon et al., 232 Mo. 496, 134 S. W. 538, the cause came back and has been argued before us.
The substantial facts in the case • are set out by Judge Cray in the above referred to opinion and we are satisfied to accept and adopt that statement and' the conclusions of law arrived at by him on those facts, as our own.
In addition to what is there said by Judge Gray, it is not improper to state that this action does not pretend to be on a subscription to the capital stock of plaintiff. It appears by the certificate of incorporation, which was in evidence, that the company was incorporated with a capitalization of $100,000, divided into 1000 shares of the par value of $100 each, all of which, according to the certificate, duly acknowledged by the incorporators, had been bona fide subscribed, “and all thereof actually put up in lawful money of the United States and is in the custody of the persons hereinafter named as the first board of directors.” Defendant was not one of the original subscribers.
It is furthermore stated in the petition that one St. Clair, who was one of the original subscribers, had failed in payment for his subscription and that he had been released from his original subscription for 600
It will be noticed that in the subscription paper, which was signed by defendant, the language used is,. “We, the undersigned, hereby agree to purchase the number of shares set opposite our respective names.”' In itself, this is not an executed but an executory agreement, subject to rescission by the proposed purchasers at any time before acceptance. It was found as a fact by the learned trial judge that before the proposed seller, to whom the agreement to buy was made, had acted upon or accepted the offer or agreement to purchase, the proposed buyer had withdrawn his offer, which, as Judge Gray shows by authority, he had a right to do. We understand what Judge Gray says as to the fact that defendant had subscribed after all the others, while applicable to the facts in.
In the argument of the case before us, attention was called to a decision of this court in Sherman v. Shaughnessy, 148 Mo. App. 679, 129 S. W. 245. We are unable to find any parallel between the facts there in issue and those in the present case. There are remarks in the opinion by the learned judge who delivered it that are applicable, on general principles and to a certain extent to the case at bar, but the case in decision there bears no parallel on its facts to the one here.
For the reasons given by Judge Gray in the opinion of the Springfield Court of Appeals heretofore referred to, the judgment of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis is affirmed.
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