BAILEY v. MEISTER BRAU, INC.

No. 69 C 1938.

320 F.Supp. 539 (1970)

Thomas B. BAILEY, Plaintiff, v. MEISTER BRAU, INC., James H. Black Company, Wilhelmina M. Harre, Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., Robert G. Mullen, Charles F. Schaeffer, Robert S. Foster, Ronald T. Cappadocia, James H. Black, Jr., Margaret H. Black, Arthur F. Harre, and Bernard M. Berry, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

December 21, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nachman, Munitz & Sweig, Donald Page Moore, Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Don H. Reuben, Steven L. Bashwiner, and Michael W. Coffield, Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

McGARR, District Judge.

Plaintiff Thomas Bailey, a 3,000 share stockholder in the James H. Black Company, and, until May, 1969, an officer and director thereof, alleges a contract with James H. Black, now deceased, giving him a "sixty day right of first refusal" on the majority of the Black Company stock, which contract he alleges is enforceable against James Black's estate.

After James Black's death on October 31, 1968...

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