Jerecki Manufacturing Co. v. Shields

The opinion of the court was delivered by This was a petition against an estate for money. On motion of claimant it was certified to the district court. The court overruled motions to make definite and certain, to strike, to order claimant to elect and a demurrer to the petition. The executrix of the estate has appealed. After the formal allegations, the petition alleged that The Equity Gas Company was incorporated on October 26, 1934; that about 1936 or 1937 decedent and the immediate members of his family acquired all of its stock and soon thereafter Shields became president and treasurer of it and during the continued existence of the corporation managed all of its business; that when Shields became president the company was in the business of drilling for and producing oil and during the same time Shields was engaged in the same