Fredendall

Plaintiffs, stockholders in the defendant corporation, El Dora Oil Company, brought the action for the purpose of having canceled certain deeds of trust and chattel mortgages given by said corporation to secure the payment of certain promissory notes, aggregating eighty-five thousand dollars, in favor of defendants, John Shrader and the Ohio Valley Construction Company, a copartnership, consisting of John Shrader, Henry M. Jackson, and J. L. Campbell; for the purpose of having delivered up and cancelled seventy-five thousand shares of the capital stock of said El Dora Oil Company, issued to the defendants Campbell, Jackson, and Shrader; for the purpose of having declared null and void a certain contract of sale of oil by the Oil Company to said last-named defendants; for an accounting by defendants of the money received by them for the sale of oil, and for certain other relief.

After the filing of the amended and supplemental complaint, S. A. Burrell, C. A. Bailey, W. H. Ballard, P. E. Stodley, Thomas Nestor, D. K. Cheever, John Glendening, Ida Otey, and Harry Clark, other stockholders of said Oil Company, by leave of court, filed complaints in intervention, in which they adopted…