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          Whitehead/Stanford stock purchase agreement was effected without            
          the prior written consent of Mr. Johnston and Jacque Johnston,              
          which, under the May 25, 1990 stock purchase agreement and the              
          September 1, 1990 stockholders’ agreement, was the only restric-            
          tion to which that sale was subject.27  Based on our examination            
          of the entire record before us, we find that petitioners have               
          failed to establish that the September 13, 1991 Whitehead/                  
          Stanford stock purchase agreement was void or voidable.28                   
               We have rejected the only argument that petitioners advance            
          (i.e., that the September 13, 1991 Whitehead/Stanford stock                 
          purchase agreement was void or voidable) to establish error in              
          the determinations of respondent that Mr. Whitehead received                
          constructive dividends totaling $24,000 during each year at issue           


               27The May 25, 1990 stock purchase agreement and the Septem-            
          ber 1, 1990 stockholders’ agreement provided that the only                  
          restriction that applied to the sale of all of the shares of one            
          minority stockholder to another stockholder was the restriction             
          that required the selling minority stockholder to obtain the                
          prior written consent of Mr. Johnston and Jacque Johnston.                  
          Petitioners have pointed to no other restriction that would apply           
          to the sale by Mr. Stanford to Mr. Whitehead of Mr. Stanford’s              
          Burien Nissan stock that was effected by the September 13, 1991             
          Whitehead/Stanford stock purchase agreement, and we have found              
          none.                                                                       
               28Assuming arguendo that petitioners had established that              
          the September 13, 1991 Whitehead/Stanford stock purchase agree-             
          ment was void or voidable, on the record before us, we find that            
          Mr. Whitehead’s Sept. 13, 1991 purchase of Mr. Stanford’s shares            
          of Burien Nissan stock was recognized and ratified by Burien                
          Nissan, Mr. Johnston, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Whitehead, and Mr.                
          Watson pursuant to the addendum to the May 25, 1990 stock pur-              
          chase agreement that was executed on Dec. 13, 1993.                         





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